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

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Thu Apr 2 15:17:26 EDT 2009


Christian Theune wrote at 2009-4-2 13:30 +0200:
>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.

I do not understand the implication.

  Do you plan that any test runs in a separate process?

  Then, I would have an objection -- test suites would take far longer.



-- 
Dieter


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