[3.13] [tests] test_subprocess maybe avoid a timeout race condition? (GH-133420)...

[tests] test_subprocess maybe avoid a timeout race condition? (GH-133420)

The few buildbot failures on https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/133103
are possibly just due to racing a child process launch and exit?
(cherry picked from commit b64aa302d7bc09454ba8d5b19922ff6a4192dd96)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index ba02b1a1c011a1ea05d43b8eba2ff9297e628593..8b2f48b0fc0119c82fa8bb89adf01b977b2625eb 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -163,13 +163,13 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
 
     def test_timeout_exception(self):
         try:
-            subprocess.run(['echo', 'hi'], timeout = -1)
+            subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-c', 'import time;time.sleep(9)'], timeout = -1)
         except subprocess.TimeoutExpired as e:
             self.assertIn("-1 seconds", str(e))
         else:
             self.fail("Expected TimeoutExpired exception not raised")
         try:
-            subprocess.run(['echo', 'hi'], timeout = 0)
+            subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-c', 'import time;time.sleep(9)'], timeout = 0)
         except subprocess.TimeoutExpired as e:
             self.assertIn("0 seconds", str(e))
         else: