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run-tests: attempt to fix iolock handling

Ideally, when using -j and -i together, when a prompt comes up, we'd
like all other output to wait (but testing to continue!). This gets
other output to wait by adding back a bunch of the locking that
formerly existed. We switch to a recursive lock to deal with the
restructuring due to unittest compatibility.

Running tests continue to run, but now the scheduler doesn't schedule
any new tasks while waiting at a prompt because no task slots become
available due to result output happening in the thread and
blocking on the iolock.

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individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
separated by the ":" character.

The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".

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