[Python-Dev] test_multiprocessing:test_listener_client flakiness

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> OK, I am not a tcp expert.
>> How about the following patch?
>> It seems to me that it is wrong for the server to lie about the
>> address it listens to.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something but... if the client part defaults to connecting
> to "localhost" in TCP mode, why doesn't the server part also default to
> listening on "localhost" in TCP mode? Having different address detection
> algorithms on both ends sounds like a recipe for bugs like this.
>
> In any case, perhaps one should ask guidance to the original author before
> making important changes like this one.

The server component *is* listening to localhost by default. The
client in the code I pasted has the server's .address attribute passed
into it to tell the client where to connect to.

-jesse