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  r80487 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-04-26 00:01:43 +0200 (lun., 26 avril 2010) | 12 lines

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    r80484 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-04-25 23:40:32 +0200 (dim., 25 avril 2010) | 6 lines

    Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
    where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
    event loop started running.  This also fixes the occasional freezes
    witnessed in test_httpservers.
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  r80489 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-04-26 00:19:43 +0200 (lun., 26 avril 2010) | 9 lines

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    r80480 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-04-25 23:15:50 +0200 (dim., 25 avril 2010) | 3 lines

    Replace a Lock with a better suited Event.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socketserver.py b/Lib/test/test_socketserver.py
index 43ce55c..0ab95d1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socketserver.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socketserver.py
@@ -243,6 +243,30 @@
     #                             socketserver.DatagramRequestHandler,
     #                             self.dgram_examine)
 
+    def test_shutdown(self):
+        # Issue #2302: shutdown() should always succeed in making an
+        # other thread leave serve_forever().
+        class MyServer(socketserver.TCPServer):
+            pass
+
+        class MyHandler(socketserver.StreamRequestHandler):
+            pass
+
+        threads = []
+        for i in range(20):
+            s = MyServer((HOST, 0), MyHandler)
+            t = threading.Thread(
+                name='MyServer serving',
+                target=s.serve_forever,
+                kwargs={'poll_interval':0.01})
+            t.daemon = True  # In case this function raises.
+            threads.append((t, s))
+        for t, s in threads:
+            t.start()
+            s.shutdown()
+        for t, s in threads:
+            t.join()
+
 
 def test_main():
     if imp.lock_held():