[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset f3297433e309e9591eaa3f36e1d7887e9d0620d7 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.6': bpo-31238: pydoc ServerThread.stop() now joins itself (GH-3151) (GH-7324) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f3297433e309e9591eaa3f36e1d7887e9d0620d7 --

[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

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[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

STINNER Victor added the comment: I left Python 2.7 and 3.6 unchanged to focus on fixing dangling threads and other similar bugs in the master branch first. I will see later if we really need to backport the fix to stable branches. In the meanwhile, I close the issue. --

[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

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[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

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[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset 4cab2cd0c05fcda5fcb128c9eb230253fff88c21 by Victor Stinner in branch 'master': bpo-31238: pydoc ServerThread.stop() now joins itself (#3151) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4cab2cd0c05fcda5fcb128c9eb230253fff88c21 --

[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

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[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

STINNER Victor added the comment: This issue is similar to bpo-31151: socketserver ForkingMixIn.server_close() leaks zombie processes. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

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[issue31238] pydoc: ServerThread.stop() leaves a dangling thread

New submission from STINNER Victor: When using https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3138 I see that test_pydoc leaves a dangling thread. The bug comes from test_server() which uses pydoc ServerThread. ServerThread.stop() and test_pydoc don't join the thread. Moreover,