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.
