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+# Copyright 2016, Google Inc.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
+# met:
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+# OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+import time
+import threading
+import unittest
+
+from grpc._cython import cygrpc
+
+# TODO(nathaniel): This should be at least one hundred. Why not one thousand?
+_PARALLELISM = 4
+
+
+def _channel_and_completion_queue():
+  channel = cygrpc.Channel('localhost:54321', cygrpc.ChannelArgs(()))
+  completion_queue = cygrpc.CompletionQueue()
+  return channel, completion_queue
+
+
+def _connectivity_loop(channel, completion_queue):
+  for _ in range(100):
+    connectivity = channel.check_connectivity_state(True)
+    channel.watch_connectivity_state(
+        connectivity, cygrpc.Timespec(time.time() + 0.2), completion_queue,
+        None)
+    completion_queue.poll(deadline=cygrpc.Timespec(float('+inf')))
+
+
+def _create_loop_destroy():
+  channel, completion_queue = _channel_and_completion_queue()
+  _connectivity_loop(channel, completion_queue)
+  completion_queue.shutdown()
+
+
+def _in_parallel(behavior, arguments):
+  threads = tuple(
+      threading.Thread(target=behavior, args=arguments)
+      for _ in range(_PARALLELISM))
+  for thread in threads:
+    thread.start()
+  for thread in threads:
+    thread.join()
+
+
+class ChannelTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+  def test_single_channel_lonely_connectivity(self):
+    channel, completion_queue = _channel_and_completion_queue()
+    _in_parallel(_connectivity_loop, (channel, completion_queue,))
+    completion_queue.shutdown()
+
+  def test_multiple_channels_lonely_connectivity(self):
+    _in_parallel(_create_loop_destroy, ())
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  unittest.main(verbosity=2)