From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 07:11:31 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: bpo-33725: skip test_multiprocessing_fork on macOS (GH-11043)
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.8rc1~21
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=df5d884defc8f1a94013ff9beb493f1428bd55b5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-33725: skip test_multiprocessing_fork on macOS (GH-11043)

(cherry picked from commit ac218bc5dbfabbd61c76ce8a17de088611e21981)

Co-authored-by: Ned Deily <nad@python.org>
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing_fork.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing_fork.py
index 9f22500e8fca..daadcd3cc312 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing_fork.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing_fork.py
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 import unittest
 import test._test_multiprocessing
 
+import sys
 from test import support
 
 if support.PGO:
     raise unittest.SkipTest("test is not helpful for PGO")
 
+if sys.platform == 'darwin':
+    raise unittest.SkipTest("test may crash on macOS (bpo-33725)")
 
 test._test_multiprocessing.install_tests_in_module_dict(globals(), 'fork')
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-12-09-01-27-29.bpo-33725.TaGayj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-12-09-01-27-29.bpo-33725.TaGayj.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..425048cb37cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-12-09-01-27-29.bpo-33725.TaGayj.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+test_multiprocessing_fork may crash on recent versions of macOS.  Until the
+issue is resolved, skip the test on macOS.