Small task: fir timing issues in test ...

Some of the tests in our test suite are based on timing, and timing,
certainly when used with parallel testing, is kinda awkward.

If someone feels up to it to make these tests less vulnerable to small
timing glitches, I/we would probably get a lot more white/green smoke
reports.

Some FAIL excepts from recent smokes for Linux and HP-UX, clearly
showing the randomness in configurations:

Failures: (common-args) none
[perlio/univ.utf8] -DDEBUGGING
[perlio] -Duse64bitall
[univ.utf8] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads
../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t................................FAILED
    46-47

Failures: (common-args) -Dcc=gcc
[perlio] -DDEBUGGING -Duse64bitall
[univ.utf8] -Duseithreads
[perlio] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads -Duse64bitall
../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t................................FAILED
    46-47

Failures: (common-args) -Dcc=gcc
[perlio] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads
../dist/threads-shared/t/waithires.t........................FAILED
    Non-zero exit status: 1
    Bad plan.  You planned 57 tests but ran 14.

Failures: (common-args) none
[perlio] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads
../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t................................FAILED
    42-43

Failures: (common-args) -Dcc=g++
[perlio] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads -Duse64bitall
../dist/threads-shared/t/waithires.t........................FAILED
    Non-zero exit status: 1
    Bad plan.  You planned 57 tests but ran 32.

Failures: (common-args) -Dcc=gcc
[stdio] 
../t/op/alarm.t.............................................FAILED
    2
[univ.utf8] -DDEBUGGING
../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t................................FAILED
    46-47

Failures: (common-args) -Dcc=g++
[perlio] -DDEBUGGING -Duse64bitall
../t/op/sselect.t...........................................FAILED
    10

Failures: (common-args) none
[perlio] -DDEBUGGING
[univ.utf8] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads -Duse64bitall
../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t................................FAILED
    46-47

Failures: (common-args) none
[perlio] -Dmad -Duselongdouble
../t/op/sselect.t...........................................FAILED
    10

Failures: (common-args) -Dcc=gcc
[stdio] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads
../dist/threads-shared/t/waithires.t........................FAILED
    Non-zero exit status: 1
    Bad plan.  You planned 57 tests but ran 32.
[stdio] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads -Duse64bitall
../dist/threads-shared/t/waithires.t........................FAILED
    Non-zero exit status: 1
    Bad plan.  You planned 57 tests but ran 14.

Failures: (common-args) -Dcc=gcc
[perlio] 
../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t................................FAILED
    42-43, 46-47

Failures: (common-args) -Dcc=gcc
[univ.utf8] -DDEBUGGING -Duse64bitall
../t/op/alarm.t.............................................FAILED
    2
[perlio] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads
../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t................................FAILED
    46-47

-- 
H.Merijn Brand  http://tux.nl      Perl Monger  http://amsterdam.pm.org/
using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00,
11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.3 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3.
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• Small task: fir timing issues in test ... by H.Merijn Brand