[Andreas Jung]

Zope 2.7.3 + Python 2.4 fails when running the unittests:

EETraceback (most recent call last): File "/develop/sandboxes/Zope-2_7-branch/Zope/lib/python/ZEO/tests/zeoserver.py", line 216, in ? main() File "/develop/sandboxes/Zope-2_7-branch/Zope/lib/python/ZEO/tests/zeoserver.py", line 212, in main ThreadedAsync.LoopCallback.loop() File "/develop/sandboxes/Zope-2_7-branch/Zope/lib/python/ThreadedAsync/LoopCallback.py", line 156, in loop poll_fun(timeout, map) File "/develop/sandboxes/Zope-2_7-branch/Zope/lib/python/ThreadedAsync/LoopCallback.py", line 108, in poll r, w, e = select.select(r, w, e, timeout) select.error: (9, 'Bad file descriptor')

So it does. On Windows the error msg is a bit different: select.error: (10038, 'An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket') Looks like these come out of two related tests: testNOK (ZEO.tests.testAuth.PlainTextAuth) testNOK (ZEO.tests.testAuth.DigestAuth) Curiously, the same tests pass on Zope 2.8 trunk under 2.4, and in Zope3 under 2.4. Unfortunately, I have no idea what those tests do. Possibly relevant is that 2.4's asyncore is less tolerant of leaving garbage in its socket_map (like closed sockets). One other thing to note: a lot of deprecation warnings about importing whrandom. That module has been officially deprecated for years (although the warning is new in 2.4) -- it's high time to stop importing it.