[Python-Dev] Issue #10348: concurrent.futures doesn't work on BSD (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Dec 30 00:23:44 CET 2010

On 12/29/2010 5:44 PM, David Bolen wrote:

Or, I'll make the same offer I think I made in the multiprocessing case, which is I can build a kernel on the buildbot with a higher limit, if that's needed just to ensure test completion. Yes, it would also mean that users would need to do the same (or in later FreeBSD releases it can be done dynamically via sysctl), but that didn't seem to be considered a big hurdle in the prior discussion for multiprocessing.

That would essentially switch this to a documentation issue, to document that on older FreeBSD platforms a user needs to take some steps, either as a startup configuration, or a kernel rebuild depending on release.

Testing on updated buildbots and documenting older BSD limits and fixes seems like the best solution. Martin is right that we really do want the tests to run to catch any real bugs (on our side).

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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