alarm() doesn't work with the factor() command

[williamstein]

teragon-2:~ was$ sage
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| SAGE Version 3.0.5, Release Date: 2008-07-11                       |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
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Loading SAGE library. Current Mercurial branch is: review
sage: alarm(3); factor(2^997-1) 

#
# and I wait 10 seconds then hit control c
#

^C---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyboardInterrupt                         Traceback (most recent call last)

/Users/was/s/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/misc/misc.py in __mysig(a, b)
   1343 __alarm_time=0
   1344 def __mysig(a,b):
-> 1345     raise KeyboardInterrupt, "computation timed out because alarm was set for %s seconds"%__alarm_time
   1346 
   1347 def alarm(seconds):

KeyboardInterrupt: computation timed out because alarm was set for 3 seconds
sage: 

Component: misc

Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/3723

[jdemeyer]

comment:1

Clearly duplicate of #13311.

[jdemeyer]

Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer