Steps to reproduce
cd activerecord
ARCONN=postgresql bin/test test/cases/reaper_test.rb \
-i '/^ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ReaperTest#test_connection_pool_starts_reaper_in_fork$/' \
-v
Expected behavior
When the forked subprocess is killed by a signal, the test should skip with a descriptive message rather than reporting a hard assertion failure, since a signal-terminated process indicates a platform or driver crash rather than a reaper logic failure.
Actual behavior
When the forked subprocess crashes with SIGSEGV (e.g. due to pg 1.6.3 + Ruby 4.0.0 arm64-darwin calling into CFPreferences via libpq's GSS/Kerberos credential probe inside a forked process), the test reports a misleading hard failure:
Failure:
ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ReaperTest#test_connection_pool_starts_reaper_in_fork:
Expected #<Process::Status: pid 35792 SIGSEGV (signal 11)> to be success?.
The subprocess never reached the reaper logic at all, so the failure says nothing about whether the reaper works correctly.
System configuration
Rails version: main
Ruby version: 4.0.0 (2025-12-25 revision 553f1675f3) +PRISM [arm64-darwin25]