[Python-Dev] Revised 1.6 jobs list

[David Ascher]

>   test_fork1 fails on Linux with threads on SMP machines.  (It's
> irrelevant without threads.)  This is a hard failure -- the process
> can either SEGV or hang forever.
>   Is this a showstopper?  SMP boxes are becoming increasingly common
> both as servers and workstations.

Why does the test fail?  I'd hate to see the thousands (nay, hundreds of
thousands) of users complain that foo isn't working just because the test
for a rarely used feature on a rare platform is broken.

--david