Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> Any suggestions? >> I've now backed out my first patch, and implemented an extension > to msvcrt, as well as a command line option for regrtest. Let's > see how this works. >> Regards, > Martin At least the tests on the win32 buildbot now do not hang any longer if I do not click the abort button on the message box. See for example http://python.org/dev/buildbot/3.0/x86%20XP-3%203.0/builds/57/step-test/0 Thanks, Thomas