autotest/autotest — pull request #138 by dgrnbrg (2012-01-12 21:53:44+00:00)
Title: Made followfile failure detector run in another thread

It's not threadsafe, but it shaves off 5s/host on startup. This saves 20s/test if you're connecting to 4 machines, which is a huge speed win.

The unsafety comes from the call to host.job.record.