[Python-Dev] test_logging failing on Windows 2000

[Guido van Rossum]

> [Raymond]
> > Create a semaphore.
> [snip]
> > Bump the semaphore count up by one before running each new
> > thread.
> [snip]
> > Have the daemons decrement the semaphore when they're done
> > handling a request.
> [snip]
> > Have the last step in the main thread be a blocking call to the semaphore
> > so that it doesn't bail out until all requests are handled.
> 
> A semaphore seems the right thing, but I think it would need to be
> incremented after each *request* rather than for each thread (to correctly
> match with the decrement after each request). This needs to be done in the
> test script before each logging call - the alternative, to have a
> SocketHandler-derived class used in the test script, may be too intrusive.

I'd prefer a different approach: register the threads started by
ThreadingTCPServer in the 'threads' variable.  Then they are waited
for in the 'finally:' clause.  You probably should move the flushing
and closing of sockOut also.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)