Since 8.2.0, automatic multiprocessing causes race conditions in my project

[Schwaneberg]

I got a project that cannot be tested with parallelism, as it requires exclusive access to some resources. Unfortunately, this also applies during unit testing. This wasn't a problem up to pytest 8.1.2, but it is since 8.2.0. Since 8.2.0, pytest instantly spawns six child processes, which are blocking each other. I couldn't find a switch to turn this off nor could I identify the PR that caused this (yet).

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

More context needed

Core pytest doesn't start processes at all

[alkino]

Hello, in our case (I and @pramodk that link the issue above): We have reproducible segfaults with pytest 8.2.0 on our code. Once we set pytest back to 8.1.1 it works again. Running with pytest 8.2.0 with -v or by specifying all files instead of the directory works too (pytest dir/file1.py dir/file2.py instead of pytest dir).

[fossdd]

This can be reproduced by running pytest (v8.2.0) on waitress or black

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[Schwaneberg]

I couldn't generate a minimal failing example yet. I'd like to reopen the issue soon.

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[The-Compiler]

@fossdd What is "this" exactly? As already mentioned, pytest doesn't do any parallelism itself. As for black, it runs pytest 8.2.0 on CI just fine... I also tried running the waitress tests locally with pytest 8.2.1 and they work fine.

Please be more specific - what exactly is happening? Are you sure it's related to this issue at all?