2 # Test for sort --compress hang
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19 .
"${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ .
/src
23 cat <<EOF >compress || framework_failure_
31 seq -w 200000 > exp || fail
=1
32 tac exp
> in || fail
=1
34 # When the bug occurs, 'sort' hangs forever. When it doesn't occur,
35 # 'sort' could be running slowly on an overburdened machine.
36 # On a circa-2010 Linux server using NFS, a successful test completes
37 # in about 170 seconds, so specify 1700 seconds as a safety margin.
38 # Note --foreground will not kill any of the "compress" sub processes,
39 # assuming they're well behaved and exit in a timely manner, but will
40 # allow this command to be responsive to Ctrl-C
41 timeout
--foreground 1700 sort --compress-program=.
/compress -S 1k
in > out \
44 compare exp out || fail
=1
48 # If $TMPDIR is relative, give subprocesses time to react when 'sort' exits.
49 # Otherwise, under NFS, when 'sort' unlinks the temp files and they
50 # are renamed to .nfsXXXX instead of being removed, the parent cleanup
51 # of this directory will fail because the files are still open.