[New-bugs-announce] [issue46045] NetBSD: do not use POSIX semaphores

[Thomas Klausner]

New submission from Thomas Klausner <tk at giga.or.at>:

On NetBSD by default, the following tests do not finish in > 1h:

1:07:13 load avg: 0.00 running: test_compileall (1 hour 7 min), test_multiprocessing_fork (1 hour 7 min), test_concurrent_futures (1 hour 6 min)

Defining HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES fixes this, and they finish:

0:00:32 load avg: 10.63 [408/427/17] test_compileall passed ...
...
0:02:37 load avg: 3.04 [427/427/22] test_concurrent_futures passed (2 min 33 sec)

The last one fails:
test_multiprocessing_fork

with most of the subtests failing like this:

ERROR: test_shared_memory_SharedMemoryServer_ignores_sigint (test.test_multiprocessing_fork.WithProcessesTestSharedMemory)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/scratch/lang/python310/work/Python-3.10.1/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py", line 4006, in test_shared_memory_SharedMemoryServer_ignores_sigint
    sl = smm.ShareableList(range(10))
  File "/scratch/lang/python310/work/Python-3.10.1/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 1372, in ShareableList
    sl = shared_memory.ShareableList(sequence)
  File "/scratch/lang/python310/work/Python-3.10.1/Lib/multiprocessing/shared_memory.py", line 327, in __init__
    self.shm = SharedMemory(name, create=True, size=requested_size)
  File "/scratch/lang/python310/work/Python-3.10.1/Lib/multiprocessing/shared_memory.py", line 92, in __init__
    self._fd = _posixshmem.shm_open(
OSError: [Errno 86] Not supported: '/psm_b1ec903a'

I think this is a separate issue, so I'd like to define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES for now.

This has been done in pkgsrc since at least python 2.7 (in 2011), I haven't dug deeper.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 408291
nosy: wiz
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: NetBSD: do not use POSIX semaphores
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.11

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