Issue #12650: fix failures on some buildbots, when a subprocess takes a long
time to spawn.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 950294d..978f772 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -1507,18 +1507,6 @@
# check that p is in the active processes list
self.assertIn(ident, [id(o) for o in subprocess._active])
- # sleep a little to let the process exit, and create a new Popen: this
- # should trigger the wait() of p
- time.sleep(1)
- with self.assertRaises(EnvironmentError) as c:
- with subprocess.Popen(['nonexisting_i_hope'],
- stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
- stderr=subprocess.PIPE) as proc:
- pass
- # p should have been wait()ed on, and removed from the _active list
- self.assertRaises(OSError, os.waitpid, pid, 0)
- self.assertNotIn(ident, [id(o) for o in subprocess._active])
-
def test_leak_fast_process_del_killed(self):
# Issue #12650: on Unix, if Popen.__del__() was called before the
# process exited, and the process got killed by a signal, it would never