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-rw-r--r--docs/ref/django-admin.txt3
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.9.txt7
-rwxr-xr-xtests/runtests.py5
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index dff48ac460..26702d7db7 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -1289,7 +1289,8 @@ correctly:
$ pip install tblib
-This feature isn't available on Oracle.
+This feature isn't available on Windows. It doesn't work with the Oracle
+database backend either.
.. warning::
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.9.txt b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
index 41e7701e99..3d256ae29d 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.9.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
@@ -135,9 +135,10 @@ Each process gets its own database. You must ensure that different test cases
don't access the same resources. For instance, test cases that touch the
filesystem should create a temporary directory for their own use.
-This option is enabled by default for Django's own test suite on database
-backends that support it (this is all the built-in backends except for
-Oracle).
+This option is enabled by default for Django's own test suite provided:
+
+- the OS supports it (all but Windows)
+- the database backend supports it (all the built-in backends but Oracle)
Minor features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/tests/runtests.py b/tests/runtests.py
index cfc8722ae2..4d6e22e3b2 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.py
+++ b/tests/runtests.py
@@ -236,8 +236,11 @@ def teardown(state):
def actual_test_processes(parallel):
if parallel == 0:
+ # On Python 3.4+: if multiprocessing.get_start_method() != 'fork':
+ if not hasattr(os, 'fork'):
+ return 1
# This doesn't work before django.setup() on some databases.
- if all(conn.features.can_clone_databases for conn in connections.all()):
+ elif all(conn.features.can_clone_databases for conn in connections.all()):
return default_test_processes()
else:
return 1