[issue38323] asyncio: MultiLoopWatcher has a race condition (test_asyncio: test_close_kill_running() hangs on AMD64 RHEL7 Refleaks 3.x)

[Chris Jerdonek]

Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com> added the comment:

> This issue is not solved.

Yes, nothing was changed. After diagnosing this issue and trying some things out in a draft PR, my conclusion is that an asyncio maintainer really needs to weigh in on what to do (especially Andrew who authored the class). The reason is that the hang is closely tied to MultiLoopChildWatcher's documented purpose. The only way I could see to fix MultiLoopChildWatcher would change its documented behavior and make it the same as SafeChildWatcher, which would defeat the purpose of having a separate class: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20142#issuecomment-712417912
Maybe there is a way to sidestep the hangs in the tests without fixing MultiLoopChildWatcher, but I didn't look into that.

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