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

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/29/2010 5:44 PM, David Bolen wrote:

> Or, I'll make the same offer I think I made in the multiprocessing
> case, which is I can build a kernel on the buildbot with a higher
> limit, if that's needed just to ensure test completion.  Yes, it would
> also mean that users would need to do the same (or in later FreeBSD
> releases it can be done dynamically via sysctl), but that didn't seem
> to be considered a big hurdle in the prior discussion for
> multiprocessing.
>
> That would essentially switch this to a documentation issue, to document
> that on older FreeBSD platforms a user needs to take some steps, either
> as a startup configuration, or a kernel rebuild depending on release.

Testing on updated buildbots and documenting older BSD limits and fixes 
seems like the best solution. Martin is right that we really do want the 
tests to run to catch any real bugs (on our side).

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Terry Jan Reedy