For Windows compatibility, use multiprocessing timeouts instead of process signals with timeout_decorator

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index c55c942..a3fb32d 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -223,12 +223,8 @@ def fail_if_no_connection(func) -> bool:
     @wraps(func)
     def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
         try:
-            timeout(1.0)(func)(*args, **kwargs)
+            timeout(1.0, use_signals=False)(func)(*args, **kwargs)
         except Exception as e:
-            # timeout_decorator is not Windows compatible, because it relies on process signals that
-            # don't exist in windows. This is an escape valve for that specific error.
-            if isinstance(e, AttributeError) and str(e) == "module 'signal' has no attribute 'SIGALRM'":
-                return
             logger.error(e)
             pytest.fail('Could not connect to backend')