New submission from Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: test_multiprocessing crashes on platforms that lack a working sem_open(), despite it being turned off at compilation time by setting HAVE_SEM_OPEN=0 in the Extension macros in setup.py
I think the multiprocessing module should disable the functionality gracefully when it is missing from _multiprocessing. Failure message: test test_multiprocessing crashed -- <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'module' object has no attribute 'SemLock' Traceback (most recent call last): File ".//Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 556, in runtest_inner indirect_test() File "/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py", line 1758, in test_main ProcessesMixin.pool = multiprocessing.Pool(4) File "/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py", line 226, in Pool return Pool(processes, initializer, initargs) File "/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 84, in __init__ self._setup_queues() File "/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 130, in _setup_queues from .queues import SimpleQueue File "/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 22, in <module> from multiprocessing.synchronize import Lock, BoundedSemaphore, Semaphore, Condition File "/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", line 29, in <module> SEM_VALUE_MAX = _multiprocessing.SemLock.SEM_VALUE_MAX AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SemLock' 1 test failed: test_multiprocessing ---------- components: Extension Modules messages: 72442 nosy: djmdjm severity: normal status: open title: test_multiprocessing fails on systems with HAVE_SEM_OPEN=0 versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3770> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com