[Python-Dev] socketserver ForkingMixin waiting for child processes

[Victor Stinner]

2017-08-12 0:34 GMT+02:00 Ryan Smith-Roberts <rmsr at lab.net>:
> Since ThreadingMixIn also leaks threads,
> server_close() could grow a timeout flag (following the socket module
> timeout convention) and maybe a terminate boolean. ThreadingMixIn could then
> also be fixed. I'm not sure how useful that is though, since I'd bet almost
> all users of socketserver exit the process shortly after server_close().
> Plus it can't be backported to the feature-freeze branches.

Oh.

It took me 2 months, but I finally identified why *sometimes*,
test_logging fails with warning about threads. It's exactly because of
the weak socketserver.ThreadingMixIn which leaves running threads in
the background, even after server_close(). I just opened a new issue:

"socketserver.ThreadingMixIn leaks running threads after server_close()"
https://bugs.python.org/issue31233

Victor