From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:42:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backport of r66703:
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.3c1~8
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=358076f3e4251c49ae028b81f031fc9f8287ec28;p=python

Backport of r66703:
Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
index ce25d8d745..cc9da0582b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -277,6 +277,12 @@ class ThreadJoinOnShutdown(unittest.TestCase):
         import os
         if not hasattr(os, 'fork'):
             return
+        # Skip platforms with known problems forking from a worker thread.
+        # See http://bugs.python.org/issue3863.
+        if sys.platform in ('freebsd4', 'freebsd5', 'freebsd6', 'os2emx'):
+            print >>sys.stderr, ('Skipping test_3_join_in_forked_from_thread'
+                                 ' due to known OS bugs on'), sys.platform
+            return
         script = """if 1:
             main_thread = threading.currentThread()
             def worker():
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a98ae2c223..435961c162 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
+  when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
+
 - Issue #3261: test_cookielib had an improper file encoding specified.
 
 - Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no