Poor interaction between `-n#` and `-c X.cfg`

[soltanmm]

Specifying e.g. -n8 appears to cause py.test options in config files e.g.

[pytest]
python_files = *_test.py

to be ignored when they're specified by invocations of the form py.test -c /something/elsewhere/setup.cfg -n8. This doesn't appear to be a problem when invoking py.test directly in a setup.py shim s.t. the setup.cfg is automagically found by py.test.

I've only stared at this for a little while, however, and may have missed a few things. Pointers?

cc @nathanielmanistaatgoogle

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

I'm not sure I understand, can you perhaps create an example project

[soltanmm]

Certainly.

To replicate the error, add some out-of-tree setup.cfg file...

[pytest]
python_files = *

... to some path $OTHER_SETUP, create a virtualenv, and pip install the example project in the virtualenv.

The invocations to replicate from the virtualenv root are then: ./bin/py.test -c $OTHER_SETUP --pyargs mypkg -v vs. ./bin/py.test -c $OTHER_SETUP -n8 --pyargs mypkg -v.

The first command should fail as expected because it's using the $OTHER_SETUP file which selects for all python files, although one of the tests really shouldn't run. The second command erroneously succeeds because it appears to ignore the bad configuration file.

(I apologize for the double negative example; was in a hurry)

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

should be fixed in the pytest feature branch

[nicoddemus]

@soltanmm could you please verify if the features branch fixes this, as @RonnyPfannschmidt mentioned? If that's the case we could close this.

[dubglan]

@RonnyPfannschmidt, we're observing the same behavior from issue #5 with pytest==2.9.1 and pytest-xdist==1.14:
Runs tests:
.../py.test --collect-only -n 3
Prints the list of tests:
.../py.test --collect-only -n 0

[davehunt]

Was this resolved by #232?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

nope

[davehunt]

nope

Okay, I asked because #5 (comment) suggests that this is a duplicate issue. Thanks.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

@davehunt this one is due to broken config handling in pytest - due to completely broken initialization of the pytest config, the initialization in xdist worker processes is inconsistent and different from the controlling process