[Python-Dev] Mac OSX issues (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:16:02 -0500

I have temporary access to a Mac OSX box. I find the following problems:

test_re crashes unless I do ulimit -s 2000 -- haven't tried other values, but the default of 512 (KB) is insufficient. I know the README file explains this, but now that I've experienced this myself, I wonder if we shouldn't hack main() to increase the stack size to 2 MB, inside an #ifdef darwin or something like that.
test_socket fails with errno 3, 'Unknown server error' on a socket.gethostbyaddr() call. Does anybody know what that is about?
test_locale fails with a complaint about "1,024" vs. "1024". Since this is probably a libc bug (though wouldn't this also occur on other BSD systems?) I can live with it.
test_largefile takes a very long time. Perhaps it actually creates a truly large file (the Mac OSX filesystem is case insensitive, so I suppose it may be so different that it doesn't support files with holes in them). Maybe the test should disable itself (or part of itself) unless a specific resource is requested?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)