[New-bugs-announce] [issue37531] Fix regrtest timeout for subprocesses: regrtest -jN --timeout=SECONDS

[Joannah Nanjekye]

New submission from Joannah Nanjekye <nanjekyejoannah at gmail.com>:

Reported by Victor Stinner.

regrtest has a --timeout parameter which calls
faulthandler.dump_traceback_later(timeout), but sometimes it's not
enough to kill a test. regrtest should kill a worker process if it
runs longer than --timeout seconds.

* https://bugs.python.org/issue37313 : test_concurrent_futures ran for
25 hours whereas regrtest was run using --timeout 900
* regrtest ran for 4 days whereas it was run with --timeout=900:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-buildbots/2019-June/000285.html

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messages: 347576
nosy: nanjekyejoannah, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Fix regrtest timeout for subprocesses: regrtest -jN --timeout=SECONDS
type: crash
versions: Python 3.9

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