[issue12463] Calling SocketServer.shutdown() when server_forever() was not called will hang

Michael P. Reilly arc...@gmail.com added the comment: Here is a patch to socketserver.py which can be applied to 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2. The fix is for BaseServer, ForkingMixIn and ThreadingMixIn. All three now correctly respond to the shutdown method. I have no way of testing Windows or MacOSX

[issue12463] Calling SocketServer.shutdown() when server_forever() was not called will hang

Michael P. Reilly arc...@gmail.com added the comment: An update test program. Execute with appropriate PYTHONPATH (to dir to patched module and explicit interpreter executable: PYTHONPATH=$PWD/2.7/b/Lib python2.7 $PWD/simpletest.py -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24094

[issue12463] Calling SocketServer.shutdown() when server_forever() was not called will hang

Michael P. Reilly arc...@gmail.com added the comment: I'm seeing that shutdown does have a race condition just using BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer. See the attached simple script. Then access http://localhost:8081. This is using both Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, May 22 2011, 16:47:42) on Oracle