test_not_enough_parameters hangs on OS X

[Barry Warsaw]

test_not_enough_parameters (mailman.rest.tests.test_users.TestLogin)

This test hangs completely on OS X 10.6.8 and 10.8.2. It does not hang on Ubuntu 13.04 AFAICT. Commenting out this test allows the rest of the test suite to run to completion, although I get three test failures (on OS X 10.8.2).

test_cannot_create_duplicate_list (mailman.rest.tests.test_lists.TestLists)
test_cannot_create_list_in_missing_domain (mailman.rest.tests.test_lists.TestLists)
test_existing_user_error (mailman.rest.tests.test_users.TestUsers)

Further, C-c leaves the RESTRunner running.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Tracing down, this hang happens in the cgi.FieldStorage.__init__() in Python 2.7's cgi.py module. Line 497 says:

            self.read_urlencoded()

so something weird on OS X is probably causing the file read to block because there's not enough data there.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Mark reports that it also hangs on Ubuntu 12.04.2

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Full test passes for me on OS X 10.9 and 10.10. Marking as no longer valid, but please do re-open if you have a problem on modern OS X again.