gh-154167: Fix test suite hang when SIGINT is ignored (GH-154168)

serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]>
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1047cbb9746f959f6787f2c393bd79cbae6100c5
commit: 1047cbb9746f959f6787f2c393bd79cbae6100c5
branch: main
author: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]>
date: 2026-07-20T17:14:50+03:00
summary:

gh-154167: Fix test suite hang when SIGINT is ignored (GH-154168)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-07-19-20-15-00.gh-issue-154167.sigint.rst
M Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py b/Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py
index b9b76a44e3b4e7..d62194acd9c29e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py
+++ b/Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ def setup_process() -> None:
         for signum in signals:
             faulthandler.register(signum, chain=True, file=stderr_fd)
 
+    # Restore the default SIGINT handler if there is no Python-level
+    # handler.  Python inherits the SIG_IGN disposition when the test
+    # suite runs as a shell background job; then asyncio.Runner does not
+    # install its own handler and _thread.interrupt_main() is a no-op,
+    # which makes some tests in test_asyncio and test_threading hang.
+    if signal.getsignal(signal.SIGINT) in (signal.SIG_IGN, signal.SIG_DFL):
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.default_int_handler)
+
     adjust_rlimit_nofile()
 
     support.record_original_stdout(sys.stdout)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-07-19-20-15-00.gh-issue-154167.sigint.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-07-19-20-15-00.gh-issue-154167.sigint.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..b2620f4a0bee54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-07-19-20-15-00.gh-issue-154167.sigint.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The test runner (regrtest) now restores the default SIGINT handler if it
+was inherited as ignored, so the test suite no longer hangs when run as
+a shell background job.

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