Megatest

	    (set-signal-handler! signal/int sighand)
	    (set-signal-handler! signal/term sighand)
	    ) ;; (set-signal-handler! signal/stop sighand)
	  
	  ;; Do not run the test if it is REMOVING, RUNNING, KILLREQ or REMOTEHOSTSTART,
	  ;; Mark the test as REMOTEHOSTSTART *IMMEDIATELY*
	  ;;
	  (let* ((test-info (let loop ((tries 0))
	  (let* ((test-info (rmt:get-test-info-by-id run-id test-id))
			      (let ((tinfo (rmt:get-test-info-by-id run-id test-id)))
				(if tinfo
				    tinfo
				    (if (> tries 5)
					#f
					(begin
					  (thread-sleep! (+ 1 (* tries 10)))
					  (loop (+ tries 1))))))))
		 (test-host (if test-info
				(db:test-get-host        test-info)
				(begin
				  (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "ERROR: failed to find a record for test-id " test-id ", exiting.")
				  (exit))))
		 (test-pid  (db:test-get-process_id  test-info)))
	    (cond

		  (set! toppath      *toppath*)
		  (if (not *toppath*)
		      (begin
			(debug:print-error 0 *default-log-port* "you are not in a megatest area!")
			(exit 1)))
		  (setenv "MT_RUN_AREA_HOME" *toppath*)
		  ;; the seed read is done, now read runconfigs, cache it then read megatest.config one more time and cache it
		  (let* ((keys         (rmt:get-keys))
		  (let* ((keys         (common:list-or-null (rmt:get-keys)
							    message: "Failed to retrieve keys in launch.scm. Please report this to the developers."))
			 (key-vals     (keys:target->keyval keys target))
			 (linktree     (common:get-linktree)) ;; (or (getenv "MT_LINKTREE")(if *configdat* (configf:lookup *configdat* "setup" "linktree") #f)))
					;     (if *configdat*
					; 	   (configf:lookup *configdat* "setup" "linktree")
					; 	   (conc *toppath* "/lt"))))
			 (second-pass  (find-and-read-config
					mtconfig

	   (remote-megatest (configf:lookup *configdat* "setup" "executable"))
	   (run-time-limit  (or (configf:lookup  tconfig   "requirements" "runtimelim")
				(configf:lookup  *configdat* "setup" "runtimelim")))
	   ;; FIXME SOMEDAY: not good how this is so obtuse, this hack is to 
	   ;;                allow running from dashboard. Extract the path
	   ;;                from the called megatest and convert dashboard
	   ;;             	  or dboard to megatest
	   (local-megatest  (let* ((lm  (car (argv)))
	   (local-megatest  (common:find-local-megatest))
				   (dir (pathname-directory lm))
				   (exe (pathname-strip-directory lm)))
			      (conc (if dir (conc dir "/") "")
				    (case (string->symbol exe)
				      ((dboard)    "../megatest")
				      ((mtest)     "../megatest")
				      ((dashboard) "megatest")
				      (else exe)))))
	   (launcher        (common:get-launcher *configdat* test-name item-path)) ;; (configf:lookup *configdat* "jobtools"     "launcher"))
	   (test-sig        (conc (common:get-testsuite-name) ":" test-name ":" item-path)) ;; (item-list->path itemdat))) ;; test-path is the full path including the item-path
	   (work-area       #f)
	   (toptest-work-area #f) ;; for iterated tests the top test contains data relevant for all
	   (diskpath   #f)
	   (cmdparms   #f)
	   (fullcmd    #f) ;; (define a (with-output-to-string (lambda ()(write x))))