[Python-Dev] OS X buildbots: why am I skipping these tests? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jun 30 19:29:36 CEST 2010

Am 30.06.2010 13:32, schrieb exarkun at twistedmatrix.com:

On 05:24 am, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

Seems to work fine. So this I don't understand. Any ideas, anyone?

Didn't we discuss this before? The buildbot slave has no controlling terminal anymore, hence it cannot open /dev/tty. If you are curious, just patch your checkout to output the exact errno (e.g. to stdout), and trigger a build through the web. Could the test be rewritten (or supplemented) to use a pty? Most or perhaps all of the same operations should be supported.

I'm not sure. It uses TIOCGPGRP, basically to establish that ioctl can also put results into a Python array (IIUC). This goes back to http://bugs.python.org/555817

Somebody rewriting it would need to make sure the original test purpose is still met.

Regards, Martin

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