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On OpenBSD I'm seeing intermittent failures of test_httpservers with the
following error:
test_post (test.test_httpservers.CGIHTTPServerTestCase) ... ERROR
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ERROR: test_post (test.test_httpservers.CGIHTTPServerTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
 File
"/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py",
line 326, in test_post
 res = self.request('/cgi-bin/file2.py', 'POST', params, headers)
 File
"/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py",
line 64, in request
 return self.connection.getresponse()
 File
"/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/httplib.py",
line 949, in getresponse
 response.begin()
 File
"/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/httplib.py",
line 418, in begin
 self.msg = HTTPMessage(self.fp, 0)
 File
"/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/mimetools.py",
line 24, in __init__
 rfc822.Message.__init__(self, fp, seekable)
 File
"/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/rfc822.py",
line 108, in __init__
 self.readheaders()
 File
"/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/httplib.py",
line 274, in readheaders
 line = self.fp.readline()
 File
"/usr/ports/lang/python/2.6/w-Python-2.6b3/Python-2.6b3/Lib/socket.py",
line 395, in readline
 data = recv(1)
error: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call
Rerunning the test by itself always passes; maybe a SIGCHLD is
interrupting the recv() call.
Anyway, EINTR is a recoverable error - the socket code should probably
retry the read.

The EINTR issue should be fixed in trunk (issue1628205). Have you by
any chance run the test suite on trunk in the meantime?

This was fixed in the other bug in 2.6 and 2.7.