Hi,
While porting python-openid and doing regress tests I had a strange behavior
with getsockname function and threads. One test (test_fetchers) create an http
server with HTTPServer class and put it in a thread before lauching
tests. Theses
tests get the server port thanks to getsockname() function. The problem is that
just right after the server is started, getsockname return nothing and block
other actions, http server continue to run. Here is a little code to
reproduce it :
-------------------------------------- start
import os, socket
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import threading
host = socket.getfqdn('127.0.0.1')
port = (os.getpid() % 31000) + 1024
server = HTTPServer((host, port), BaseHTTPRequestHandler)
print "before:"
print server.socket.getsockname()[1]
server_thread = threading.Thread(target=server.serve_forever)
server_thread.setDaemon(1)
server_thread.start()
print "after:"
print server.socket.getsockname()[]
print "ok"
-------------------------------------- end of code
On 4.2 & -current, if you execute this code you get this result :
-------
before:
<numofport>
after:
--------
After the line "after", nothing appear and http server continue to run.
If you access it with a browser or telnet then the script end and you finaly
have getsockname return and "ok" line. If you remove getsockname line
everything is ok. So it seems that getsockname block the thread or something
like it. Is this a bug ? I reproduced this behaviour on macppc and amd64.
Benoit
