[issue11812] transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> If thread.join had a timeout , we could wait for a while and if the
> thread is still active, do a fake connection and another join.

What's wrong with a socket timeout exactly? Everything you're proposing
is ten times more complicated, and more fragile.

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