Issue #12650: fix failures on some buildbots, when a subprocess takes a long

Charles-François Natali · Charles-François Natali · commit 2736c5d47c68 · 2011-08-19T00:25:07.000+02:00
time to spawn.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -1507,18 +1507,6 @@ def test_zombie_fast_process_del(self):
         # check that p is in the active processes list
         self.assertIn(ident, [id(o) for o in subprocess._active])
 
-        # sleep a little to let the process exit, and create a new Popen: this
-        # should trigger the wait() of p
-        time.sleep(1)
-        with self.assertRaises(EnvironmentError) as c:
-            with subprocess.Popen(['nonexisting_i_hope'],
-                                  stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-                                  stderr=subprocess.PIPE) as proc:
-                pass
-        # p should have been wait()ed on, and removed from the _active list
-        self.assertRaises(OSError, os.waitpid, pid, 0)
-        self.assertNotIn(ident, [id(o) for o in subprocess._active])
-
     def test_leak_fast_process_del_killed(self):
         # Issue #12650: on Unix, if Popen.__del__() was called before the
         # process exited, and the process got killed by a signal, it would never
