From: Charles-François Natali <cf.natali@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:52:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Issue #16762: Fix some test_subprocess failures on NetBSD and OpenBSD: kill()
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~164^2~86
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef2bd67e2364ef92dab03442c07864a3a5e90b85;p=python

Issue #16762: Fix some test_subprocess failures on NetBSD and OpenBSD: kill()
returns ESRCH for a zombie process, which is not POSIX-compliant.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 38844888fd..69384ba0f4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -892,6 +892,8 @@ class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         getattr(p, method)(*args)
         return p
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform.startswith(('netbsd', 'openbsd')),
+                     "Due to known OS bug (issue #16762)")
     def _kill_dead_process(self, method, *args):
         # Do not inherit file handles from the parent.
         # It should fix failures on some platforms.