[Python-Dev] Issue #10348: concurrent.futures doesn't work on BSD

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:28 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>> I would like to know if it should be considered as a release blocker.
>>> Georg Brandl said yes on IRC.
>>
>> Under the condition that it is within reason to fix it before the
>> release.
>
> What *should* be possible is to disable building
> SemLock/multiprocessing.synchronize on FreeBSD. As a consequence,
> multiprocessing locks would stop working on FreeBSD, and concurrent
> futures; the tests would recognize this lack of features and get
> skipped.
>
> Regards,
> Martin

The multiprocessing test suite already skips the tests which use the
(broken) functionality on BSD correctly. This logic needs to be added
to the concurrent.futures library.

jesse