2 # ensure that --follow=name does not imply --retry
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19 .
"${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ .
/src
22 cat <<\EOF
> exp || framework_failure_
23 tail: cannot open
'no-such' for reading
: No such
file or directory
24 tail: no files remaining
26 returns_
1 timeout
10 tail --follow=name no-such
> out
2> err || fail
=1
27 # Remove an inconsequential inotify warning so
28 # we can compare against the above error
29 sed '/inotify cannot be used/d' err
> k
&& mv k err
30 compare exp err || fail
=1
32 # Between coreutils 8.34 and 9.5 inclusive, with inotify, tail would
33 # have waited indefinitely when a file was moved to the same file system.
34 # Also without inotify tail would have exited with success.
35 cleanup_
() { kill $pid 2>/dev
/null
&& wait $pid; }
36 fastpoll
='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1' # speedup non inotify systems
37 for inotify
in '' '---disable-inotify'; do
38 touch file || framework_failure_
39 timeout
10 tail --follow=name
$fastpoll file & pid
=$
!
40 sleep .1 # Usually in tail_forever{,_inotify}() here
41 mv file file.unfollow || framework_failure_
44 rm -f file file.unfollow || framework_failure_