On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:28 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >>> I would like to know if it should be considered as a release blocker. >>> Georg Brandl said yes on IRC. >> >> Under the condition that it is within reason to fix it before the >> release. > > What *should* be possible is to disable building > SemLock/multiprocessing.synchronize on FreeBSD. As a consequence, > multiprocessing locks would stop working on FreeBSD, and concurrent > futures; the tests would recognize this lack of features and get > skipped. > > Regards, > Martin
The multiprocessing test suite already skips the tests which use the (broken) functionality on BSD correctly. This logic needs to be added to the concurrent.futures library. jesse _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
