[Zope-Coders] Linux Tests Hanging, ZEO?

[Chris Withers]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> Aha! There is a single ZEO test that attempts to connect to the
> discard port.  On all the machines I tried it on, this produced an
> error so I assumed it was safe.
> 
> What happens when on your machine when this happens?

Well, prettymuch the symptoms I described in the original mail.

My understanding of the discard port is a port is that
anything sent to it is thrown away, and it never sends anything back. A
sort of network equivilent of /dev/null.

If your test is expecting a response back, it'll wait indefinitely :-(

I'm going to patch that test with a self.fail() for now, as I'm about to go 
abroad for 2 weeks and all those hung processes will kill the machine the tests 
run on otherwise...

cheers,

Chris