Revert "lit: revert 134b103f"

This reverts commit d319005a.

Causing messages like:

  File "...\Python\Python39\lib\multiprocessing\connection.py", line 816, in _exhaustive_wait
    res = _winapi.WaitForMultipleObjects(L, False, timeout)
ValueError: need at most 63 handles, got a sequence of length 74