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+import java.io._
+import tools.nsc.{CompileClient, CompileServer}
+import java.util.concurrent.{CountDownLatch, TimeUnit}
+
+object Test extends App {
+  val startupLatch = new CountDownLatch(1)
+  // we have to explicitly launch our server because when the client launches a server it uses 
+  // the "scala" shell command meaning whatever version of scala (and whatever version of libraries)
+  // happens to be in the path gets used
+  val t = new Thread(new Runnable {
+    def run() = {
+      CompileServer.execute(() => startupLatch.countDown(), Array[String]())
+    }
+  })
+  t setDaemon true
+  t.start()
+  if (!startupLatch.await(2, TimeUnit.MINUTES))
+    sys error "Timeout waiting for server to start"
+
+  val baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
+  val ps = new PrintStream(baos) 
+
+  val success = (scala.Console withOut ps) {
+    // shut down the server via the client using the verbose flag
+    CompileClient.process(Array("-shutdown", "-verbose"))
+  }
+
+  // now make sure we got success and a verbose result
+  val msg = baos.toString()
+
+  if (success) {
+    if (msg contains "Settings after normalizing paths") {
+     println("got successful verbose results!")
+    } else {
+     println("did not get the string expected, full results were:")
+     println(msg)
+    }
+  } else {
+    println("got a failure. Full results were:")
+    println(msg)
+  }
+  scala.Console.flush
+}