[New-bugs-announce] [issue31479] Always reset the signal alarm on unit tests

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor:

While fixing bpo-17085 on Python 2.7 (test_socket: cancel scheduled alarm on test failure), I noticed that not all unit tests currently always reset the signal alarm.

I propose to always use the pattern "try/finally: signal.alarm(0)" to make sure that a test doesn't "leak" a pending fatal signal alarm.

Attached PR fixes the issue.

I don't think that it's worth it to backport the fix, since it only impacts tests which fail, interrupted manually by CTRL+c or other corner cases.

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components: Tests
messages: 302213
nosy: haypo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Always reset the signal alarm on unit tests
versions: Python 3.7

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