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

  Merged revisions 80484 via svnmerge from
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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_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index 4653f4c..aa1e48c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@
         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
         self.request_handler = request_handler
         self.test_object = test_object
-        self.test_object.lock.acquire()
 
     def run(self):
         self.server = HTTPServer(('', 0), self.request_handler)
         self.test_object.PORT = self.server.socket.getsockname()[1]
-        self.test_object.lock.release()
+        self.test_object.server_started.set()
+        self.test_object = None
         try:
-            self.server.serve_forever()
+            self.server.serve_forever(0.05)
         finally:
             self.server.server_close()
 
@@ -51,13 +51,12 @@
 
 class BaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
-        self.lock = threading.Lock()
+        self.server_started = threading.Event()
         self.thread = TestServerThread(self, self.request_handler)
         self.thread.start()
-        self.lock.acquire()
+        self.server_started.wait()
 
     def tearDown(self):
-        self.lock.release()
         self.thread.stop()
 
     def request(self, uri, method='GET', body=None, headers={}):