Philip Withnall authored Jan 09, 2014 and Olivier Crête committed Jan 31, 2014

A g_usleep() was introduced in commit
e22ecb19 to fix a potential race where
the non-main threads would finish all their work before the error_loop
was started, leaving the error_loop to run for 30s then abort the test.

A better fix, instead of doing a racy sleep, is to have the non-main
threads spin until the error_loop is running. GLib takes care of all the
locking for us, and since we don’t care about efficiency for test cases,
spinning is fine (the wait is also going to be quite short).