Megatest

    ;; override the number of reruns from the configs
    (if (and config-reruns
	     (> run-count config-reruns))
	(set! run-count config-reruns))
    
    (if (tasks:need-server run-id)(tasks:start-and-wait-for-server tdbdat run-id 10))

    ;; if signal received, clean up and exit
    (let ((sighand (lambda (signum)
		     ;; (signal-mask! signum) ;; to mask or not? seems to cause issues in exiting
		     (if (eq? signum signal/stop)
			 (debug:print 0 "ERROR: attempt to STOP process.")
                         (begin
                           (set! *time-to-exit* #t)
                           (print "Received signal " signum ", cleaning up before exit. Please wait...")
                           (let ((th1 (make-thread (lambda ()
                                                     (let ((tdbdat (tasks:open-db)))
                                                       (rmt:tasks-set-state-given-param-key task-key "killed"))
                                                     (print "Killed by signal " signum ". Exiting")
                                                     (thread-sleep! 3)
                                                     (exit))))
                                 (th2 (make-thread (lambda ()
                                                     (thread-sleep! 5)
                                                     (debug:print 0 "Done")
                                                     (exit 4)))))
                             (thread-start! th2)
                             (thread-start! th1)
                             (thread-join! th2)))))))
      (set-signal-handler! signal/int sighand)
      (set-signal-handler! signal/term sighand)
      ;;(set-signal-handler! signal/stop sighand)
      )
    
    (runs:set-megatest-env-vars run-id inkeys: keys inrunname: runname) ;; these may be needed by the launching process
    (set! runconf (if (file-exists? runconfigf)
		      (setup-env-defaults runconfigf run-id *already-seen-runconfig-info* keyvals target)
		      (begin
			(debug:print 0 "WARNING: You do not have a run config file: " runconfigf)
			#f)))

    ;; (set! test-names (delete-duplicates (tests:get-valid-tests *toppath* test-patts)))
    (debug:print-info 0 "tests search path: " (string-intersperse (tests:get-tests-search-path *configdat*) " "))
    (debug:print-info 0 "all tests:         " (string-intersperse (sort all-test-names string<) " "))
    (debug:print-info 0 "test names:        " (string-intersperse (sort test-names string<) " "))
    (debug:print-info 0 "required tests:    " (string-intersperse (sort required-tests string<) " "))


    ;; allow-auto-rerun - undocumented, maybe unimplemented.
    ;; on the first pass or call to run-tests set FAILS to NOT_STARTED if
    ;; -keepgoing is specified
    (if (eq? *passnum* 0)
	(begin
	  ;; Is this still necessary? I think not. Unreachable tests are marked as such and 
	  ;; should not cause problems here.
	  ;;

						   (itemstable (hash-table-ref/default config "itemstable" #f))) 
					       ;; if either items or items table is a proc return it so test running
					       ;; process can know to call items:get-items-from-config
					       ;; if either is a list and none is a proc go ahead and call get-items
					       ;; otherwise return #f - this is not an iterated test
					       (cond
						((procedure? items)      
						 (debug:print-info 4 "items is a procedure, will calc later") ;; BB? calc later? when??
						 items)            ;; calc later
						((procedure? itemstable)
						 (debug:print-info 4 "itemstable is a procedure, will calc later")
						 itemstable)       ;; calc later
						((filter (lambda (x)
							   (let ((val (car x)))
							     (if (procedure? val) val #f)))

			       (begin
				 (debug:print-info 0 "Adding non-itemized test " waiton " to required-tests")
				 (set! required-tests (cons waiton required-tests))
				 (set! test-patts new-test-patts))))
			 (begin
			   (debug:print-info 0 "No testconfig info yet for " waiton ", setting up to re-process it")
			   (set! tal (append (cons waiton tal)(list hed))))) ;; (cons (conc waiton "/") required-tests))
                     
		     ;; NOPE: didn't work. required needs to be plain test names. Try tacking on to test-patts
		     ;;  - doesn't work
		     ;; (set! test-patts (conc test-patts "," waiton "/"))
		     
		     ;; (set! test-names (cons waiton test-names))))) ;; was an append, now a cons
		     )))
	     (delete-duplicates (append waitons waitors)))
	    (let ((remtests (delete-duplicates (append waitons tal))))
	      (if (not (null? remtests))
		  (begin ;; BB: by pushing upstream test with item filter to end, downstream tests' items are not filtered when encountered.  This causes chained-waiton/item_seq4 to FAIL.
                    ;;          when test3/%, test2/%, test1/% all items are added to testpatt when instead test4/item.1 should imply test3/item.1, which shold imply test2/item.1 and so on
		    (debug:print-info 0 "Preprocessing continues for " (string-intersperse remtests ", "))
		    (loop (car remtests)(cdr remtests))))))))

    (if (not (null? required-tests))
	(debug:print-info 0 "BB Adding \"" (string-intersperse required-tests " ") "\" to the run queue")) ; BB changed 1 to 0
    ;; NOTE: these are all parent tests, items are not expanded yet.
    (debug:print-info 0 "BB test-records=" (hash-table->alist test-records)) ; BB: changed 4 to 0
    (let ((reglen (configf:lookup *configdat* "setup" "runqueue")))
      (if (> (length (hash-table-keys test-records)) 0)
	  (let* ((keep-going        #t)
		 (run-queue-retries 5)
		 (th1        (make-thread (lambda ()
					    (handle-exceptions
					     exn

					 (newpatt (conc waiton-test "/" (substring modpatt waiting-test-len (string-length modpatt)))))
				    ;; (conc waiting-test "/," waiting-test "/" (substring modpatt waiton-test-len (string-length modpatt)))))
				    ;; (print "in map, x=" x ", newpatt=" newpatt)
				    newpatt))
				(filter (lambda (x)
					  (eq? (substring-index (conc waiting-test "/") x) 0)) ;; is this patt pertinent to the waiting test
					patts))))

    (string-intersperse (delete-duplicates (append patts (if (null? patts-waiton)
							     (list (conc waiton-test "/%")) ;; really shouldn't add the waiton forcefully like this
							     patts-waiton)))
			",")))
  
;; tests:glob-like-match 
(define (tests:glob-like-match patt str)