python3: signal.signal/singal.alarm

[Alan]

Hi there,

I have this, say timeTol = 5 (5 seconds) and 'cmd' takes minutes to execute
:

            import subprocess as sub

            ...

            p = sub.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stderr = sub.STDOUT, stdout =
sub.PIPE)

            pid = p.pid

            signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, signal_handler)

            signal.alarm(timeTol)

And it works on python 2.x.

However, on python 3.x, the signal_handler is only called when 'p =
sub.Popen...' has finished (after minutes) and signal.alarm appears to not
be called at 5 sec. Can someone please explain me this behaviour and how to
solve this?

Many thanks in advance,

Alan
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Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
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