[Python-Dev] stabilizing builds (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Tue Jan 24 12:15:29 CET 2006

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:01:36PM -0800, Neal Norwitz wrote:

* testpty is brittle on solaris 10, sometimes it works, sometimes not

FWIW, it's brittle on Solaris 9, too, and the SF compilefarm has two of those. I don't know if it's the same problem, but on Solaris 9, the slave part of the tty/pty pair sometimes isn't a TTY (according to os.isatty.) The buildbot's log doesn't list the solaris 10 test_pty failure though, just the test_logging failure.

It looks like a timing issue; the first run succeeds, all subsequent runs fail, for a while, anyway. I'll do some googling and browsing other tty/pty-using code to see if there's anything we're not doing we should be doing, but it looks like a platform bug that we can't fix... Not without re-implementing os.isatty anyway ;P

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