From: Jesse Noller <jnoller@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:22:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merge r64375 to py3k
X-Git-Tag: v3.0b1~8
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d00df3cfe67af754255a39f597375a8ca8fc986d;p=python

Merge r64375 to py3k
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index 04df45d592..d7d3cfcdbd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -1755,9 +1755,12 @@ globals().update(testcases_threads)
 #
 
 def test_main(run=None):
-    if sys.platform.startswith("linux") and not os.path.exists("/dev/shm"):
-        from test.test_support import TestSkipped
-        raise TestSkipped("Missing required /dev/shm device on Linux!")
+    if sys.platform.startswith("linux"):
+        try:
+            lock = multiprocessing.RLock()
+        except OSError:
+            from test.test_support import TestSkipped
+            raise TestSkipped("OSError raises on RLock creation, see issue 3111!")
 
     if run is None:
         from test.support import run_unittest as run