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  r60355 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:10:14 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Whitespace cleanup
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  r60356 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:10:29 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add assertion that we do not blow out newl
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  r60357 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:10:35 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Initialize variable to prevent warning on some platform/config.
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  r60358 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:10:43 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Update to newer version of ffi.  Fixes crashes and test failures of longdouble
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  r60359 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:10:50 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add a tiny sleep and additional flush to force the file to really be synced.
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  r60360 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:10:58 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Retry connection in case it fails to reduce flakiness
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  r60361 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:11:11 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Catch socket errors that are often the cause of transient failures.
  Many of these exceptions are due to resource unavailable, so the
  existing code should be able to handle many more spurious errors.
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  r60362 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:12:15 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Reduce buffer size since we do not need 1k
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  r60363 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 18:13:07 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Print periodic "still working" messages since this suite is slow.
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