Skip the epoll test if epoll() does not work
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_epoll.py b/Lib/test/test_epoll.py
index f56d74f..ab1756c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_epoll.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_epoll.py
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@
if not hasattr(select, "epoll"):
raise test_support.TestSkipped("test works only on Linux 2.6")
+try:
+ select.epoll()
+except IOError, e:
+ if e.errno == errno.ENOSYS:
+ raise test_support.TestSkipped("kernel doesn't support epoll()")
+
class TestEPoll(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):