make socks.py and http.py shut themselves down after a timeout of inactivity (maybe that will fix the problem of them lingering, stalling tests). fix some issues in run_regression_tests.py

tools/run_regression_tests.py

@@ -88,11 +88,11 @@ def loop():
 
 	skip = '-s' in sys.argv
 
+	rev_file = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), '.rev')
 	if skip:
 		sys.argv.remove('-s')
 		last_rev = run_tests.svn_info()[0] - 1
 	else:
-		rev_file = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), '.rev')
 		print 'restoring last state from "%s"' % rev_file
 
 		try:

tools/run_tests.py

@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ def run_tests(toolset, tests, features, options, test_dir, time_limit, increment
 #			p.wait()
    
 		for t in tests:
-			if t != '': cmdline.append(t)
 			if t == '':
 				t = os.path.split(os.getcwd())[1]
 				# we can't pass in a launcher when just building, that only
@@ -109,6 +108,7 @@ def run_tests(toolset, tests, features, options, test_dir, time_limit, increment
 					options = options[:]
 					options.remove('launcher=valgrind')
 			cmdline = ['bjam', '--out-xml=%s' % xml_file, '-l%d' % time_limit, '--abbreviate-paths', toolset] + options + feature_list
+			if t != '': cmdline.append(t)
 
 #			print ' '.join(cmdline)