[pypy-issue] [issue1203] threading module timing issue seems to confuse coverage

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

New submission from Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt at gmx.de>:

coverage uses threading.settrace to set a global tracing function for new threads

on pypy it seems to slightly misbehave

the behavior can be observed when running
the ThreadingTest of coverage's test.test_oddball

the repo is https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/

the test can be invoked with pypy -m unittest test.test_oddball.ThreadingTest

for debug output apply the patch

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files: testability.patch
messages: 4540
nosy: pypy-issue, ronny
priority: bug
status: unread
title: threading module timing issue seems to confuse coverage

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