[tor-bugs] #8531 [Chutney]: Extend Chutney to be able to verify that we can send and retrieve traffic

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#8531: Extend Chutney to be able to verify that we can send and retrieve traffic
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 Reporter:  ln5               |          Owner:  nickm         
     Type:  enhancement       |         Status:  needs_revision
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:                
Component:  Chutney           |        Version:                
 Keywords:  SponsorF20131031  |         Parent:                
   Points:                    |   Actualpoints:                
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Changes (by nickm):

  * status:  needs_review => needs_revision


Comment:

 Stuff to fix before merging:

 This needs documentation and comments.

 Exiting with a -1 exit code is not so great -- exit codes are often
 restricted to 8 bits unsigned, so you might as well just exit with 1 or
 with 0.


 Stuff that we should open new tickets for:

 This is okay for now, I think, but we should very soon come up with a way
 to make it cleaner and more extensible: we certainly don't want to put
 every network test we're ever going to write into a new method in
 TorNet.py, right?

 We sholdl consider the use of the asyncore or asynchat modules rather than
 invoking select.select directly.

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