[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

STINNER Victor added the comment: I backported the fix to Python 2.7 to fix bpo-30334. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset 3837d9797c14c13d170256143c841d29645e772a by Victor Stinner in branch '2.7': bpo-15526: test_startfile changes the cwd (#1537) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3837d9797c14c13d170256143c841d29645e772a -- nosy: +haypo

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

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[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

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[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, hopefully there'll no more be failures now. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected versions: +Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset bc5c5b79b7e1 by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.2': Issue #15526: try to fix test_startfile's inability to clean up after itself in time. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bc5c5b79b7e1 New changeset 1704deb7e6d7 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Is

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Jeremy Kloth added the comment: This test is still intermittently failing on the AMD64 Windows7 SP1 buildbot: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%203.x/builds/630 Any chance the patch could be committed? -- ___ Python tra

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Jeremy Kloth added the comment: Here is the patch implementing option #2 -- keywords: +patch nosy: +jkloth Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26947/test_startfile.diff ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Jeremy Kloth added the comment: However #1 is the reason that is bug exists in the first place. The designer of the test guessed wrong on the "magic value" for the timeout. There will never be a correct timeout value as it varies from machine to machine and from workload to workload on a given

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I think the two "simple and stupid" solutions (#1 and #2) have a certain charm myself :) Especially #1, which is the simplest of all. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Jeremy Kloth added the comment: > I think the reason that it is only this buildbot which fails is that the > other Windows buildbots don't use multiple processes. Therefore they don't > use a different dir for each test. That might be it. Also the failure possibly only happens when multiple

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Richard Oudkerk added the comment: I think the reason that it is only this buildbot which fails is that the other Windows buildbots don't use multiple processes. Therefore they don't use a different dir for each test. > 4) change os.startfile() to use ShellExecuteEx and use the hProcess > han

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Jeremy Kloth added the comment: Unfortunately, this is a legitimate failure of the test. The test (actually the support code) is attempting to remove a directory that is the current directory of an active process. The test has documented this issue and attempted to work around it by adding a sl

[issue15526] test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: It crashed again, despite issue15496 being fixed: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%203.x/builds/496 -- title: regrtest crash on Windows 7 AMD64 -> test_startfile crash on Windows 7 AMD64 ___