ctest 10 minute timeout introduced between 3.31.0 and 4.1.0?

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ctest -T test -R SomeTest --debug
3.31.0: CTest\cmCTestRunTest.cxx:836 247: Test timeout computed to be: 10000000

4.10.0: Test timeout computed to be: 600

I checked the offending source code and did some debugging, but the 10 minutes have been there in 3.31.0 too, something else must have changed.

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Does anyone have any link to the documentation for the 10 minutes default timeout? I have found nothing.

Whats also curious --timeout 0 is ignored if added. (values > 0 are not ignored)
If I remove -T test the 10 minutes timeout goes away.

What do you think, worth opening an issue?

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Cc: @purpleKarrot

Thanks. This bisects to CMake MR 9881. It doesn’t look intentional.

Please open an issue.

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For reference, -T test is meant to activate dashboard client mode, which isn’t something normally done during local development.

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I believe at least one major IDE uses ctest -T test to run or query the set of defined tests. I don’t know why they chose to do that.