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Comment on issue #13 "wontfix"
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glenfant authored Dec 31, 2017
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- Any Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.3 with ``signal.SIGALRM`` support. This
excludes Windows boxes

Known issues
============

Issue about timeout accuracy
============================
Timeout accuracy
----------------

**Important**: the way CPython supports threading and asynchronous features has
impacts on the accuracy of the timeout. In other words, if you assign a 2.0
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accurate timeout at the expense of the overall performances while the context
managed block or decorated functions are executing.

``gevent`` support
------------------

Threading timeout control as mentioned in `Threading based resources`_ do not work as expected
when used in the context of a gevent worker.

See the discussion in `Issue #13<https://github.com/glenfant/stopit/issues/13>`_ for more details.

Tests and demos
===============

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