From: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 17:05:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: gh-130730: Fix multiprocessing test_active_children() (#130837)
X-Git-Tag: v3.14.0a6~163
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3dd3675492a3fc3b7996613ef75a9044ee7449b0;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

gh-130730: Fix multiprocessing test_active_children() (#130837)

Replace a sleep with an event: sleep is not a reliable
synchronization primitive.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
index f31151e53c4b..67ab8f098f70 100644
--- a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -589,12 +589,16 @@ class _TestProcess(BaseTestCase):
     def test_active_children(self):
         self.assertEqual(type(self.active_children()), list)
 
-        p = self.Process(target=time.sleep, args=(DELTA,))
+        event = self.Event()
+        p = self.Process(target=event.wait, args=())
         self.assertNotIn(p, self.active_children())
 
-        p.daemon = True
-        p.start()
-        self.assertIn(p, self.active_children())
+        try:
+            p.daemon = True
+            p.start()
+            self.assertIn(p, self.active_children())
+        finally:
+            event.set()
 
         p.join()
         self.assertNotIn(p, self.active_children())