allow thread safety tests to time out without failing
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                 Key: STDCXX-536
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-536
             Project: C++ Standard Library
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Tests
    Affects Versions: trunk
            Reporter: Martin Sebor


The newly added thread safety tests (and possibly some of the existing ones) 
tend to run for a long time, consuming a lot of CPU cycles, and sometimes even 
failing due to a timeout (currently 300 seconds in nightly builds). It would be 
useful to provide a mechanism such as a command line option whereby the tests' 
runtime could be limited without necessarily causing them to fail when the 
amount of time is exceeded. One way to do it would be for each test to set an 
alarm in response to this command line option and in handler for the alarm set 
a flag that each thread would check at each iteration of its loop to see if it 
should break.

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