[issue23680] Sporadic freeze in test_interrupted_write_retry_text

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Note that PIPE_MAX_SIZE can be large. Perhaps move the memory allocation (i.e. `item * (support.PIPE_MAX_SIZE // len(item) + 1)`) before the alarm(1) call?

Or what if alarm_interrupt is simply set up to retrigger the signal? e.g. instead of:

    def alarm_interrupt(self, sig, frame):
        1/0

write:

    def alarm_interrupt(self, sig, frame):
        signal.alarm(1)
        1/0

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