[Python-Dev] "Buildbot" category on the tracker

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 02:58:48 CET 2009


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:31 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

> I'd say that particular one is a bug in the tests.  If /dev/shm is
> not available and is required, then the tests should be skipped with
> an appropriate message.  It would also secondarily be an issue with
> the buildbot fleet, since multiprocessing would then not be getting
> thoroughly tested by those buildbots.

Fwiw: The tests skip on those platforms; but multiprocessing can't
function properly on platforms like that.


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