tests: avoid triggering obsolete tail option processing
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1 #!/bin/sh
2 # ensure that tail -F handles rotation
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19 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
20 print_ver_ tail
22 grep '^#define HAVE_INOTIFY 1' "$CONFIG_HEADER" >/dev/null \
23 || expensive_
25 check_tail_output()
27 local delay="$1"
28 grep "$tail_re" out > /dev/null ||
29 { sleep $delay; return 1; }
32 # Wait up to 25.5 seconds for grep REGEXP 'out' to succeed.
33 grep_timeout() { tail_re="$1" retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 8; }
35 # Terminate any background tail process
36 cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; }
38 cleanup_fail()
40 cat out
41 warn_ $1
42 cleanup_
43 fail=1
46 # Speedup the non inotify case
47 fastpoll='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1'
49 # Perform at least this many iterations, because on multi-core systems
50 # the offending sequence of events can be surprisingly uncommon.
51 # See: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00213.html
52 for i in $(seq 50); do
53 echo $i
54 rm -f k x out
56 # Normally less than a second is required here, but with heavy load
57 # and a lot of file system activity, even 20 seconds is insufficient, which
58 # leads to this timeout killing tail before the "ok" is written below.
59 >k && >x || framework_failure_ failed to initialize files
60 timeout 60 tail $fastpoll -F k > out 2>&1 & pid=$!
62 echo 'tailed' > k;
63 # wait for 'tailed' to appear in out
64 grep_timeout 'tailed' || { cleanup_fail 'failed to find "tailed"'; break; }
66 mv x k
67 # wait for tail to detect the rename
68 grep_timeout 'tail:' || { cleanup_fail 'failed to detect rename'; break; }
70 echo ok >> k
71 # wait for "ok" to appear in 'out'
72 grep_timeout 'ok' || { cleanup_fail 'failed to detect echoed ok'; break; }
74 cleanup_
75 done
77 Exit $fail