Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_thread.py b/Lib/test/test_thread.py
index 134ac3b..4e707e5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_thread.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_thread.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
from test import test_support
import thread
import time
+import sys
import weakref
from test import lock_tests
@@ -196,8 +197,47 @@
locktype = thread.allocate_lock
+class TestForkInThread(unittest.TestCase):
+ def setUp(self):
+ self.read_fd, self.write_fd = os.pipe()
+
+ def test_forkinthread(self):
+ if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
+ from test.test_support import TestSkipped
+ raise TestSkipped("This test is only appropriate for "
+ "POSIX-like systems.")
+ def thread1():
+ try:
+ pid = os.fork() # fork in a thread
+ except RuntimeError:
+ sys.exit(0) # exit the child
+
+ if pid == 0: # child
+ os.close(self.read_fd)
+ os.write(self.write_fd, "OK")
+ sys.exit(0)
+ else: # parent
+ os.close(self.write_fd)
+
+ thread.start_new_thread(thread1, ())
+ self.assertEqual(os.read(self.read_fd, 2), "OK",
+ "Unable to fork() in thread")
+
+ def tearDown(self):
+ try:
+ os.close(self.read_fd)
+ except OSError:
+ pass
+
+ try:
+ os.close(self.write_fd)
+ except OSError:
+ pass
+
+
def test_main():
- test_support.run_unittest(ThreadRunningTests, BarrierTest, LockTests)
+ test_support.run_unittest(ThreadRunningTests, BarrierTest, LockTests,
+ TestForkInThread)
if __name__ == "__main__":
test_main()