[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] Python Regression Test Failures refleak (1) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jun 7 07:53:51 CEST 2006

Tim Peters wrote:

and filecmp contains a module-level cache with a funky scheme for avoiding file comparisons if various os.stat() values haven't changed. But stmtime on Windows doesn't necessarily change when a file is modified -- it has limited resolution (2 seconds on FAT32, and I'm having a hard time finding a believable answer for NTFS (which I'm using)).

The time stamp itself has a precision of 100ns (it really is a FILETIME). I don't know whether there is any documentation that explains how often it is updated; I doubt it has a higher resolution than the system clock :-)

Anyone bored enough to report what happens on Linux?

I had to run it 18 times to get

test_exceptions beginning 42 repetitions 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 .......................................... test_exceptions leaked [203, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] references 1 test OK.

Regards, Martin

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