a question about testing hgweb (concerning spawndetached on windows)

[Simon Heimberg]

Do we test "hgweb writing on output socket" (in the test suite)?
 
If we do, this comment from mercurial.win32.spawndetached is not totally
true. It works for me with python 2.6.6 on windows 7 x64, when running
under MinGW/MSYS.
 
    # Not running the command in shell mode makes Python 2.6 hang when
    # writing to hgweb output socket.
    comspec = os.environ.get("COMSPEC", "cmd.exe")
    args = comspec + " /c " + arg
 copied from mercurial.win32.spawndetached,
 see http://selenic.com/repo/hg/file/a959f7167077/mercurial/win32.py#l330
 
This comment originates from 2f7a38f336f4, submitted by Patrick Mezard
<pmezard at gmail.com>.
 see http://selenic.com/repo/hg/rev/2f7a38f336f4/#l3.16
 

At my windows computer, the tests with 'hg serve' run much better when not
running with 'COMSPEC'.