[Zope-Coders] testDaemon.py failure

[Shane Hathaway]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>>>>>>"CW" == Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:
>>>>>
> 
>   CW> Can whoever put the platform specific code in the HEAD version
>   CW> of testDaemon.py sort it out please?
> 
> So you're calling me "whoever" this week?  Well, it wasn't me this
> time.
> 
> It looks like the platform-dependent code has *always* been in
> zdaemon, but there were never any tests for zdaemon.  I added a couple
> of tests for it on Monday, and the mere fact that we now have a test
> of zdaemon uncovers the long-standing problem.
> 
> I'm not sure what needs to be done -- perhaps Shane can help, since he
> made the original checkin.  Is zdaemon even used on Windows?  Do we
> want it to work there?
> 
> Toby added some calls recently that use posix.close().  We can easily
> change those to os.close().  But posix.setsid() is not available on
> Windows.  I don't know what it does or whether it is crucial to have
> it.

I actually only translated it from a module to a package, so I'm not 
100% sure, but I think zdaemon is intended only for POSIX-compliant 
systems.  So the zdaemon tests should probably be disabled if os.name != 
'posix'.

Shane