Re: indefinite hang in ./perl -I. -MTestInit ../ext/IO/t/io_multihomed.t

David Landgren wrote in perl.daily-build :
> 
> Which leads me to think that possibly some sort of dead man switch is 
> needed: if a test doesn't phone home within a set amount of time it is 
> forcibly evicted. 600 seconds sounds reasonable to me.
> 
> I'm not sure at what level this should be, though. I'd tend to argue 
> for the test harness program itself.

The problem is that the test harness program should use a minimal set
of features from perl, because it's used to test perl itself.

So I'd suggest to handle this from the smoke kit : it can be run with
another perl, known to work with alarms and all this kind of stuff.