On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:33, Branko Čibej wrote:
> Madan U Sreenivasan wrote:
>
> > Branko Čibej wrote:
> >
> >> Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
> >>
> >>> If a segfault is the error you're fixing, then I'd say checking for
> >>> the segfault is an adequate test.
> >>
> >> Indeed, but we don't have a portable way of detecting segfaults in
> >> the test framework. I wish...
> >>
> >> -- Brane
> >
> >
> > I'm looking at using
> > try
> > -
> > -
> > -
> > except OSError
> > How does that sound Brane?
>
> I'm pretty certain that won't work on any platform. A segfault in a
> child process won't trigger an exception in the parent, even if you're
> reading from the child's stdout/stderr pipes. You'd have to actually
> wait for the child to terminate to get the exit status (something Python
> on Windows doesn't support without using the Windows-specific modules,
> of course).
>
> -- Brane
mmmmm... I realized late .... being new to python.... like you said, we
need some way of detecting segfaults.... neways....thanks....
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Received on Fri Feb 18 14:25:06 2005