[py-dev] pytest-timeout 0.2

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On 19 March 2012 22:20, Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> wrote:
> On 19 March 2012 16:38, Brack, Laurent P. <lpbrac at dolby.com> wrote:
>> It would also be nice to have a consistent behavior between sigalarm on/off. For instance, on Windows, pytest exits on first hang as opposed to *nix where the test is pre-empted and pytest moves on to the next one.
>
> I was writing up a response saying I didn't know how to do so, but
> while doing so I thought it might be possible to emulate sigalrm with
> a timer thread which fires an other signal.  I might investigate the
> feasibility of such an approach.

I (finally) had a look at this and don't think it's worth pursuing
mostly because windows doesn't have any user-usable signals to do
this.  And the benefit on UNIX just doesn't seem that big to me.  I
think integration with xdist would be a better approach to tackle
this.

Regards,
Floris

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