Add a signal-timeout delivery hook - #204
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A failure raised by SIGALRM can be consumed by an event-loop callback before it reaches the test runner [1]. Existing setup and cancellation hooks require replacing the timer implementation to change how its failure is delivered. Add an item-scoped expiry hook after debugger checks and stack diagnostics. A plugin can accept the existing failure for delivery at its own execution boundary; otherwise the same exception is raised immediately. Keep timer policy and the thread method unchanged. Claiming cooperative delivery does not guarantee termination. [1]: pytest-dev#113
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A signal timeout can interrupt asyncio while it schedules a task's next step, leaving the task pending without a continuation [1]. Catching the resulting pytest failure and cancelling that task cannot reliably recover it. Add opt-in cooperative delivery through pytest-timeout's proposed expiry hook [2]. Queue cancellation without raising into the scheduler, then report the supplied failure at the owned runner boundary. Preserve external cancellation, process-control exceptions, and the interrupted await's traceback. Stop final runner shutdown separately when it times out; ordinary shared-runner invocations remain reusable. Keep timer selection, deadlines, debugger handling, and diagnostics in pytest-timeout. Existing signal behavior remains the default. Cooperative cancellation cannot stop blocking or cancellation-resistant code, so the thread method remains the hard process-stop option. Final runner shutdown may leave resource cleanup incomplete. Pin the producer prerequisite in a dedicated integration environment until its hook is released. Collect coverage from the isolated pytest processes and map installed-wheel paths back to the source tree. Require Coverage.py 7.10.3 for its subprocess-directory fixes [3]. [1]: pytest-dev/pytest-timeout#113 [2]: pytest-dev/pytest-timeout#204 [3]: https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/7.10.3/changes.html
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A signal timeout can interrupt asyncio while it schedules a task's next step, leaving the task pending without a continuation [1]. Catching the resulting pytest failure and cancelling that task cannot reliably recover it. Add opt-in cooperative delivery through pytest-timeout's proposed expiry hook [2]. Queue cancellation without raising into the scheduler, then report the supplied failure at the owned runner boundary. Preserve external cancellation, process-control exceptions, and the interrupted await's traceback. Stop final runner shutdown separately when it times out; ordinary shared-runner invocations remain reusable. Keep timer selection, deadlines, debugger handling, and diagnostics in pytest-timeout. Existing signal behavior remains the default. Cooperative cancellation cannot stop blocking or cancellation-resistant code, so the thread method remains the hard process-stop option. Final runner shutdown may leave resource cleanup incomplete. Pin the producer prerequisite in a dedicated integration environment until its hook is released. Collect coverage from the isolated pytest processes and map installed-wheel paths back to the source tree. Require Coverage.py 7.10.3 for its subprocess-directory fixes [3]. [1]: pytest-dev/pytest-timeout#113 [2]: pytest-dev/pytest-timeout#204 [3]: https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/7.10.3/changes.html
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A SIGALRM failure can be consumed by an event-loop callback before it reaches the test runner, as reported in #113. The timer hooks added in #117 allow an async plugin to replace the complete timer, but not just the delivery of its failure.
Add an item-scoped pytest_timeout_expired hook after debugger checks and stack diagnostics. A plugin can accept the existing failure for delivery at its own execution boundary; otherwise pytest-timeout raises the same exception immediately. The timer and thread method retain their existing behavior. Claiming cooperative delivery does not guarantee termination.
The paired pytest-asyncio implementation 1 uses this hook to queue cancellation without raising into asyncio's task scheduler. Its cooperative behavior is explicitly opt-in.
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