test: some cleanup work in the unit tests
This is a flurry of patches while I was trying to debug something completely different. It makes the unit test suite slightly less awful and more reliable, though it's still not particularly useful. Oh well.
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This is a flurry of patches while I was trying to debug something completely different. It makes the unit test suite slightly less awful and more reliable, though it's still not particularly useful. Oh well.