[issue3050] Implement PEP 371: multiprocessing module

[Jesse Noller]

Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> added the comment:

Debian PPC build crash:
http://python.org/dev/buildbot/stable/ppc%20Debian%20unstable%203.0/buil
ds/1063/step-test/0

...snip
Re-running test 'test_multiprocessing' in verbose mode
test test_multiprocessing crashed -- <class 'OSError'>: [Errno 38] 
Function not implemented
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 601, in runtest_inner
    indirect_test()
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/3.0.klose-debian-
ppc/build/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py", line 1764, in test_main
    ProcessesMixin.pool = multiprocessing.Pool(4)
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/3.0.klose-debian-
ppc/build/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py", line 225, in Pool
    return Pool(processes, initializer, initargs)
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/3.0.klose-debian-
ppc/build/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 84, in __init__
    self._setup_queues()
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/3.0.klose-debian-
ppc/build/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 131, in _setup_queues
    self._inqueue = SimpleQueue()
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/3.0.klose-debian-
ppc/build/Lib/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 315, in __init__
    self._rlock = Lock()
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/3.0.klose-debian-
ppc/build/Lib/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", line 106, in __init__
    SemLock.__init__(self, SEMAPHORE, 1, 1)
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/3.0.klose-debian-
ppc/build/Lib/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", line 38, in __init__
    sl = self._semlock = _multiprocessing.SemLock(kind, value, maxvalue)
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
[801671 refs]
make: *** [buildbottest] Error 1
program finished with exit code 2

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