[Twisted-Python] Re: Using twisted.trial with nose unittest system
Jean-Paul Calderone
exarkun at divmod.com
Wed Feb 7 11:01:14 EST 2007
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:32:26 +0100, Antoine Pitrou <antoine.pitrou at wengo.com> wrote:
>
>Hi Jean-Paul,
>
>> The one practical problem which this method of integration has is that
>> it will not allow unit tests to run child processes. So, one wouldn't
>> be able to run Twisted's test suite with nose using this. Of course,
>> if one has no interest in running tests which run child processes, then
>> this may not be a big deal.
>
>Do you mean because the reactor does not receive signals?
>
Yep. Without the SIGCHLD handler installed, Twisted will never reap the
children, so they will remain as zombies.
Jean-Paul
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