Issue #12469: partial revert of 024827a9db64, freebsd6 thread initialization
* Don't create a thread at startup anymore to initialize the pthread library:
it changes the behaviour of many functions related to signal handling like
sigwait()
* Reenable test_sigtimedwait_poll() on FreeBSD 6
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index ebdd3bc..1d02141 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_signal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
@@ -670,9 +670,6 @@
@unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(signal, 'sigtimedwait'),
'need signal.sigtimedwait()')
- # issue #12303: sigtimedwait() takes 30 seconds on FreeBSD 6 (kernel bug)
- @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform =='freebsd6',
- "sigtimedwait() with a null timeout doens't work on FreeBSD 6")
def test_sigtimedwait_poll(self):
# check that polling with sigtimedwait works
self.wait_helper(signal.SIGALRM, '''
diff --git a/Python/thread_pthread.h b/Python/thread_pthread.h
index fe9dde6..4b61e18 100644
--- a/Python/thread_pthread.h
+++ b/Python/thread_pthread.h
@@ -144,10 +144,7 @@
* Initialization.
*/
-/* On FreeBSD6, pthread_kill() doesn't work on the main thread before
- the creation of the first thread */
-#if defined(_HAVE_BSDI) \
- || (defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD_version < 700000)
+#if defined(_HAVE_BSDI)
static
void _noop(void)
{