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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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+- 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.
+
 - Issue #8524: When creating an SSL socket, the timeout value of the
   original socket wasn't retained (instead, a socket with a positive timeout
   would be turned into a non-blocking SSL socket).