Issue #22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests.

When running tests in subprocesses with the regrtest -j option, a bug
in Cocoa Tk can result in a Tcl segfault.  Avoid the problem by forcing
Tk to fully initialize as an OS X gui process before destroying the
Tcl instance and creating another. (Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka)

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 26b8e444b9..f4434595e8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -326,12 +326,11 @@ def _is_gui_available():
                 reason = "cannot run without OS X gui process"
 
     # check on every platform whether tkinter can actually do anything
-    # but skip the test on OS X because it can cause segfaults in Cocoa Tk
-    # when running regrtest with the -j option (multiple threads/subprocesses)
-    if (not reason) and (sys.platform != 'darwin'):
+    if not reason:
         try:
             from Tkinter import Tk
             root = Tk()
+            root.update()
             root.destroy()
         except Exception as e:
             err_string = str(e)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 97aa75f8b5..c60917fcd0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ Tests
 - Issue #21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings.  Thanks
   to William Orr.
 
+- Issue #22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests.
+
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