The OS X Tiger fails more or less intermittently on one of the new multiprocessing tests: ====================================================================== FAIL: test_pickling (test.test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestPicklingConnections) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/db3l/buildarea/3.x.bolen-tiger/build/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py", line 2032, in test_pickling self.assertEqual(new_conn.recv(100), msg.upper()) AssertionError: b'' != b'THIS CONNECTION USES A NORMAL SOCKET' http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20Tiger%203.x/builds/4408/steps/test/logs/stdio
I can't work out what is wrong here. The code does not to account for a partial read of the message from the socket. The attached patch fixes that, but it does not address the cause of this failure.
> I can't work out what is wrong here. OS-X has known issues with FD-passing over Unix domain sockets, see issues #6560 and #12958. Since those failures only occur on OS-X buildbots, I'd suggest just skipping them...