Megatest

     (else
      (debug:print 4 "FAILS: " fails)
      ;; If one or more of the prereqs-not-met are FAIL then we can issue
      ;; a message and drop hed from the items to be processed.
      (if (null? fails)
	  (begin
	    ;; couldn't run, take a breather
	    (debug:print-info 0 "Shouldn't really get here, race condition? Unable to launch more tests at this moment, killing time ...")
	    (debug:print-info 0 "   test is " hed ", prereqs-not-met is " prereqs-not-met)
	    ;; (thread-sleep! (+ 0.01 *global-delta*)) ;; long sleep here - no resources, may as well be patient
	    (debug:print-info 0 "Waiting for more work to do...")
	    (thread-sleep! 1)
	    ;; we made new tal by sticking hed at the back of the list
	    (list (car newtal)(cdr newtal) reg reruns))
	  ;; the waiton is FAIL so no point in trying to run hed ever again
	  (if (or (not (null? reg))(not (null? tal)))
	      (if (vector? hed)
		  (begin 
		    (debug:print 1 "WARN: Dropping test " (db:test-get-testname hed) "/" (db:test-get-item-path hed)
				 " from the launch list as it has prerequistes that are FAIL")

		  (cdb:tests-register-test *runremote* run-id test-name item-path)
		  (set! test-id (cdb:remote-run db:get-test-id #f run-id test-name item-path))))
	    (debug:print-info 4 "test-id=" test-id ", run-id=" run-id ", test-name=" test-name ", item-path=\"" item-path "\"")
	    (set! testdat (cdb:get-test-info-by-id *runremote* test-id))))
      (if (not testdat) ;; should NOT happen
	  (debug:print 0 "ERROR: failed to get test record for test-id " test-id))
      (set! test-id (db:test-get-id testdat))
      (if (file-exists? test-path)
      (change-directory test-path)
	  (change-directory test-path)
	  (begin
	    (debug:print "ERROR: test run path not created before attempting to run the test. Perhaps you are running -remove-runs at the same time?")
	    (change-directory *toppath*)))
      (case (if force ;; (args:get-arg "-force")
		'NOT_STARTED
		(if testdat
		    (string->symbol (test:get-state testdat))
		    'failed-to-insert))
	((failed-to-insert)
	 (debug:print 0 "ERROR: Failed to insert the record into the db"))