Post-push fix: The problem was that condition variable
timeouts could in some cases (slow machines and/or short
timeouts) be infinite.

When the number of milliseconds to wait is computed, the
end time is computed before the now() time. This can result
in the now() time being later than the end time, leading to
negative timeout. Which after conversion to unsigned becomes
~infinite.

This patch fixes the problem by explicitly checking if we
get negative timeout and then using 0 if this is the case.