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Auto merge of #12958 - ehuss:fix-last-use-now-race, r=epage
Fix non-deterministic behavior in last-use repopulation
This fixes an issue where some last-use tests would fail sporadically because the code that populates missing database entries was using the current time as it was iterating over the files. If the clock happened to roll over while it was iterating, then different files would get different timestamps non-deterministically.
The fix is to snapshot the current time when it starts, and reuse that time while repopulating. I didn't do this originally just because I was reluctant to pass yet another argument around. However, it seems like this is necessary. In #12634, we discussed other options such as having some kind of process-global "now" snapshot (like in `Config`), but I'm reluctant to do that because I am uneasy dealing with long-lived programs, or handling before/after relationships (like different parts of the code not considering that all timestamps might be equal). It might be something that we could consider in the future, but I'm not sure I want to try right now.
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