On buildbots, it's common to see such warning:


0:32:04 [269/404] test_property passed -- running: test_multiprocessing_spawn (74 sec)
D:\buildarea\3.x.bolen-windows10\build\lib\test\support\__init__.py:1012: RuntimeWarning: tests may fail, unable to create temporary directory 'D:\\buildarea\\3.x.bolen-windows10\\build\\build\\test_python_1048': [WinError 183] Cannot create a file when that file already exists: 'D:\\buildarea\\3.x.bolen-windows10\\build\\build\\test_python_1048'
  with temp_dir(path=name, quiet=quiet) as temp_path:
running: test_cmd_line_script (30 sec), test_multiprocessing_spawn (104 sec)

I also got it *sometimes*. It took me months to understand where it does come from.

It's quite stupid in fact: temporary directories are not removed if a test does crash (ex: segfault). Later, if a test process has the same PID than the crashed process, you get the warning.

I suggest to add a "clean" step on buildbots to first remove old "test_python_*" directories leaked by previous runs.

First, I wanted to add such cleanup in regrtest directly, but it's common that I run two main regrtest processes in parallel, and I would like to keep this feature. If regrtest starts by removing test_python_*: it will break currently running tests.

I'm not 100% confident that the warning is caused by previous runs, but I think that it's worth it to try to cleanup to check if it's case ;-)

I also see this warning on AppVeyor:

0:01:42 [170/404] test_fcntl skipped -- running: test_concurrent_futures (76 sec)
C:\projects\cpython\lib\test\support\__init__.py:1012: RuntimeWarning: tests may fail, unable to create temporary directory 'C:\\projects\\cpython\\build\\test_python_1080': [WinError 183] Cannot create a file when that file already exists: 'C:\\projects\\cpython\\build\\test_python_1080'
  with temp_dir(path=name, quiet=quiet) as temp_path:
test_fcntl skipped -- No module named 'fcntl'
0:01:42 [171/404] test_eintr passed -- running: test_concurrent_futures (76 sec)

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/python/cpython/build/3.7.0a0.1476

I got this error trying to build Python 3.6.7, why is this closed?

Running PGInstrument|x64 interpreter...
E:\RepoGiT\3.6\lib\test\support\__init__.py:1029: RuntimeWarning: tests may fail, unable to create temp dir: D:\Users\yorch\AppData\Local\Temp\test_python_15660
  with temp_dir(path=name, quiet=quiet) as temp_path:
Run tests sequentially

May I add that this directory exists, maybe before this run tried to create it and hence not being able to do it as the first post suggested?