Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 due to platform bug.
Two itimer tests and an interprocess signal test fail on FreeBSD 6 if
any test that starts a thread runs before test_signal. Since FreeBSD7
does not show this behavior, the bug is most likely a platform bug,
so this patch just skips the failing tests on freebsd6.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index 466b9b6..23b0553 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_signal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@
self.fail("pause returned of its own accord, and the signal"
" didn't arrive after another second.")
+ # Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
+ @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
+ 'inter process signals not reliable (do not mix well with threading) '
+ 'on freebsd6')
def test_main(self):
# This function spawns a child process to insulate the main
# test-running process from all the signals. It then
@@ -355,6 +359,9 @@
self.assertEqual(self.hndl_called, True)
+ # Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
+ @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
+ 'itimer not reliable (does not mix well with threading) on freebsd6')
def test_itimer_virtual(self):
self.itimer = signal.ITIMER_VIRTUAL
signal.signal(signal.SIGVTALRM, self.sig_vtalrm)
@@ -376,6 +383,9 @@
# and the handler should have been called
self.assertEquals(self.hndl_called, True)
+ # Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
+ @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
+ 'itimer not reliable (does not mix well with threading) on freebsd6')
def test_itimer_prof(self):
self.itimer = signal.ITIMER_PROF
signal.signal(signal.SIGPROF, self.sig_prof)