Kill several problems at once: test_poll() failed sometimes for me.
Turns out the mysterious "expected output" file contained exactly N dots, because test_poll() has a loop that *usually* went around N times, printing one dot on each loop trip. But there's no guarantee of that, because the exact value of N depended on the vagaries of scheduling time.sleep()s across two different processes. So stopped printing dots, and got rid of the expected output file. Add a loop counter instead, and verify that the loop goes around at least a couple of times. Also cut the minimum time needed for this test from 4 seconds to 1.
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