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In py previous post, i guessed that the problem comes from cython, that does not handle the Python signal correctly, as if it runs too fast to hear it ;) Here is a workaround: the timetout() function should operate at a lower level. We will launch the computation as a new thread, and kill the thread after timeout_duration. The kill signal is not sent at the Python level, but at the kernel level.

To compute a function in a separate thread, Sage has a @fork decorator, here is how to use it in your framework:

sage: def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=10):
....:    @fork(timeout=timeout_duration, verbose=True)
....:    def my_new_func():
....:        return func(*args, **kwargs)
....:    my_new_func()

Now you can see that oth

sage: timeout(loop_forever)

and

sage: timeout(my_func)

stop after time_duration !

In py previous post, i guessed that the problem comes from cython, that does not handle the Python signal correctly, as if it runs too fast to hear it ;) Here is a workaround: the timetout() function should operate at a lower level. We will launch the computation as a new thread, and kill the thread after timeout_duration. The kill signal is not sent at the Python level, but at the kernel level.

To compute a function in a separate thread, Sage has a @fork decorator, here is how to use it in your framework:

sage: def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=10):
....:    @fork(timeout=timeout_duration, verbose=True)
....:    def my_new_func():
....:        return func(*args, **kwargs)
....:    my_new_func()

Now you can see that othboth

sage: timeout(loop_forever)

and

sage: timeout(my_func)

stop after time_duration !

In py my previous post, i guessed that the problem comes from cython, that does not handle the Python signal correctly, as if it runs too fast to hear it ;) Here is a workaround: the timetout() function should operate at a lower level. We will launch the computation as a new thread, and kill the thread after timeout_duration. The kill signal is not sent at the Python level, but at the kernel level.

To compute a function in a separate thread, Sage has a @fork decorator, here is how to use it in your framework:

sage: def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=10):
....:    @fork(timeout=timeout_duration, verbose=True)
....:    def my_new_func():
....:        return func(*args, **kwargs)
....:    return my_new_func()

Now you can see that both

sage: timeout(loop_forever)

and

sage: timeout(my_func)

stop after time_duration !

In my previous post, answer, i guessed that the problem comes from cython, that does not handle the Python signal correctly, as if it runs too fast to hear it ;) Here is a workaround: the timetout() function should operate at a lower level. We will launch the computation as a new thread, and kill the thread after timeout_duration. The kill signal is not sent at the Python level, but at the kernel level.

To compute a function in a separate thread, Sage has a @fork decorator, here is how to use it in your framework:

sage: def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=10):
....:    @fork(timeout=timeout_duration, verbose=True)
....:    def my_new_func():
....:        return func(*args, **kwargs)
....:    return my_new_func()

Now you can see that both

sage: timeout(loop_forever)

and

sage: timeout(my_func)

stop after time_duration !

In my previous answer, i guessed that the problem comes from cython, that does not handle the Python signal correctly, as if it runs too fast to hear it ;) Here is a workaround: the timetout() function should operate at a lower level. We will launch the computation as a new thread, process, and kill the thread process after timeout_duration. The kill signal is not sent at the Python level, but at the kernel level.

To compute a function in a separate thread, process, Sage has a @fork decorator, here is how to use it in your framework:

sage: def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=10):
....:    @fork(timeout=timeout_duration, verbose=True)
....:    def my_new_func():
....:        return func(*args, **kwargs)
....:    return my_new_func()

Now you can see that both

sage: timeout(loop_forever)

and

sage: timeout(my_func)

stop after time_duration !