tests/tail-2/assert

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # Test for assertion failure in "test".
   3
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   5
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  18
  19
  20 # This test fails with tail from textutils-2.0.
  21 # It would get something like this:
  22 #   tail: tail.c:718: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed.
  23 #   Aborted
  24 # due to a race condition in which a dev/inode pair is reused.
  25
  26 if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
  27   set -x
  28   tail --version
  29 fi
  30
  31 # Not "expensive" per se, but sleeping for so long is annoying.
  32 . $srcdir/test-lib.sh
  33 very_expensive_
  34
  35 ok='ok ok ok'
  36
  37 touch a foo
  38 tail --follow=name a foo > err 2>&1 &
  39 tail_pid=$!
  40 # Arrange for the tail process to die after 12 seconds.
  41 (sleep 12; kill $tail_pid) &
  42
  43 echo sleeping for 7 seconds...
  44
  45 # Give the backgrounded `tail' a chance to start before removing foo.
  46 # Otherwise, without --retry, tail wouldn't try to open `foo' again.
  47 sleep 1
  48
  49 rm -f foo
  50 sleep 6
  51 echo $ok > f
  52 mv f foo
  53
  54 # echo waiting....
  55 wait
  56
  57 case "`cat err`" in
  58   *$ok) fail=0;;
  59   *) fail=1;;
  60 esac
  61
  62 test $fail = 1 && cat err
  63
  64 Exit $fail