Jesse Noller wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:31 PM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> > wrote: > >> I'd say that particular one is a bug in the tests. If /dev/shm is >> not available and is required, then the tests should be skipped with >> an appropriate message. It would also secondarily be an issue with >> the buildbot fleet, since multiprocessing would then not be getting >> thoroughly tested by those buildbots. > > Fwiw: The tests skip on those platforms; but multiprocessing can't > function properly on platforms like that.
I'm confused: first you said they fail, now you say they get skipped. Which one is it? I agree with R. David's analysis: if they fail, it's a multiprocessing bug, if they get skipped, it's a flaw in the build slave configuration (but perhaps only slightly so, because it is good if both cases are tested - and we do have machines also that provide /dev/shm). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com