Is there a good way to make FILELOCK_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS more configurable?

[fhightower]

As noted in this comment, the FILELOCK_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS is not particularly configurable. Investigate ways to make FILELOCK_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS more easily configurable (this would be very helpful in the tests for this library).

If there is a good way to make this more configurable, implement it and create another ticket to update the tests in this library to set the timeout to a small value by default to limit the time it takes for tests to finish.