[Python-Dev] Who can make test_fork1 fail? (original) (raw)

Charles G Waldman cgw@fnal.gov
Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:26:33 -0500 (CDT)

Tim Peters writes:

Since nobody has made real progress on figuring out why test_fork1 fails on some systems, would somebody who is able to make it fail please just try this patch & see what happens?

Or try this program (based on Neil's example), which will fail almost immediately unless you apply my patch:

import thread import os, sys import time

def doit(name): while 1: if os.fork()==0: print name, 'forked', os.getpid() os._exit(0) r = os.wait()

for x in range(50): name = 't%s'%x print 'starting', name thread.start_new_thread(doit, (name,))

time.sleep(300)