Issue #20910: Make tests more reliable, less dependent on time
* Tolerate 10 seconds instead of 3 seconds for slow test
* Faster test, use sleep of 100 ms instead of 1 sec
* Replace a number of iterations with an explicit deadline for the timeout
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_wait4.py b/Lib/test/test_wait4.py
index 352c11a..b427a9b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_wait4.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_wait4.py
@@ -19,13 +19,14 @@
# Issue #11185: wait4 is broken on AIX and will always return 0
# with WNOHANG.
option = 0
- for i in range(10):
+ deadline = time.monotonic() + 10.0
+ while time.monotonic() <= deadline:
# wait4() shouldn't hang, but some of the buildbots seem to hang
# in the forking tests. This is an attempt to fix the problem.
spid, status, rusage = os.wait4(cpid, option)
if spid == cpid:
break
- time.sleep(1.0)
+ time.sleep(0.1)
self.assertEqual(spid, cpid)
self.assertEqual(status, 0, "cause = %d, exit = %d" % (status&0xff, status>>8))
self.assertTrue(rusage)