tail: always fail when followed files become inaccessible
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1 #!/bin/sh
2 # ensure that --follow=name does not imply --retry
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19 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
20 print_ver_ tail
22 cat <<\EOF > exp || framework_failure_
23 tail: cannot open 'no-such' for reading: No such file or directory
24 tail: no files remaining
25 EOF
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_
42 wait $pid
43 test $? = 1 || fail=1
44 rm -f file file.unfollow || framework_failure_
45 done
47 Exit $fail