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-# This is a variant of the very old (early 90's) file
-# Demo/threads/bug.py. It simply provokes a number of threads into
-# trying to import the same module "at the same time".
-# There are no pleasant failure modes -- most likely is that Python
-# complains several times about module random having no attribute
-# randrange, and then Python hangs.
-
-import unittest
-from test.test_support import verbose, TestFailed, import_module
-thread = import_module('thread')
-
-critical_section = thread.allocate_lock()
-done = thread.allocate_lock()
-
-def task():
- global N, critical_section, done
- import random
- x = random.randrange(1, 3)
- critical_section.acquire()
- N -= 1
- # Must release critical_section before releasing done, else the main
- # thread can exit and set critical_section to None as part of global
- # teardown; then critical_section.release() raises AttributeError.
- finished = N == 0
- critical_section.release()
- if finished:
- done.release()
-
-def test_import_hangers():
- import sys
- if verbose:
- print "testing import hangers ...",
-
- import test.threaded_import_hangers
- try:
- if test.threaded_import_hangers.errors:
- raise TestFailed(test.threaded_import_hangers.errors)
- elif verbose:
- print "OK."
- finally:
- # In case this test is run again, make sure the helper module
- # gets loaded from scratch again.
- del sys.modules['test.threaded_import_hangers']
-
-# Tricky: When regrtest imports this module, the thread running regrtest
-# grabs the import lock and won't let go of it until this module returns.
-# All other threads attempting an import hang for the duration. Since
-# this test spawns threads that do little *but* import, we can't do that
-# successfully until after this module finishes importing and regrtest
-# regains control. To make this work, a special case was added to
-# regrtest to invoke a module's "test_main" function (if any) after
-# importing it.
-
-def test_main(): # magic name! see above
- global N, done
-
- import imp
- if imp.lock_held():
- # This triggers on, e.g., from test import autotest.
- raise unittest.SkipTest("can't run when import lock is held")
-
- done.acquire()
- for N in (20, 50) * 3:
- if verbose:
- print "Trying", N, "threads ...",
- for i in range(N):
- thread.start_new_thread(task, ())
- done.acquire()
- if verbose:
- print "OK."
- done.release()
-
- test_import_hangers()
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
- test_main()