[Zope-dev] zope.testing.runner: protecting against rogue threads

[Christian Theune]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:30 +0200, Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if tests spawn non-daemon threads, then the test runner can get stuck.
> 
> The easiest way that I see is to always --exit-with-status and to make
> --exist-with-status also call sys.exit() when the tests passed.
> 
> Any objections?

I forgot an alternative solution:

Make the test runner patch the Thread class to turn all threads into
daemons during testing.

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