gh-154272: Skip more forkserver tests if the start method is unavailable (GH-154499)

serhiy-storchaka · claude · web-flow · commit a2a846678e54 · 2026-07-22T18:25:37.000Z
Two tests were still not skipped: they were only guarded against Cygwin
and Windows.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_concurrent_futures/test_init.py b/Lib/test/test_concurrent_futures/test_init.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import contextlib
 import logging
+import multiprocessing
 import queue
 import time
 import unittest
@@ -147,8 +148,8 @@ def test_spawn(self):
         self._test(ProcessPoolSpawnFailingInitializerTest)
 
     @support.skip_if_sanitizer("TSAN doesn't support threads after fork", thread=True)
-    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "cygwin",
-                     "Forkserver is not available on Cygwin")
+    @unittest.skipUnless("forkserver" in multiprocessing.get_all_start_methods(),
+                         "forkserver start method is not available")
     def test_forkserver(self):
         self._test(ProcessPoolForkserverFailingInitializerTest)
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_profiling/test_tracing_profiler.py b/Lib/test/test_profiling/test_tracing_profiler.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Test suite for the cProfile module."""
+import multiprocessing
 import sys
 import unittest
 
@@ -220,8 +221,8 @@ def test_process_spawn_pickle(self):
         # gh-140729: test use Process in cProfile.
         self._test_process_run_pickle('spawn')
 
-    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == 'win32',
-                     "No 'forkserver' start method on Windows")
+    @unittest.skipUnless("forkserver" in multiprocessing.get_all_start_methods(),
+                         "forkserver start method is not available")
     def test_process_forkserver_pickle(self):
         # gh-140729: test use Process in cProfile.
         self._test_process_run_pickle('forkserver')
