tests: avoid false failure in tail inotify test
[coreutils.git] / tests / tail-2 / assert-2.sh
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1 #!/bin/sh
2 # This variant of 'assert' would get a Uninit Mem Read reliably in 2.0.9.
3 # Due to a race condition in the test, the 'assert' script would get
4 # the UMR on Solaris only some of the time, and not at all on Linux/GNU.
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21 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
22 print_ver_ tail
24 check_tail_output()
26 local delay="$1"
27 grep "$tail_re" out ||
28 { sleep $delay; return 1; }
31 # Terminate any background tail process
32 cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; }
34 # Speedup the non inotify case
35 fastpoll='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1'
37 for mode in '' '---disable-inotify'; do
38 rm -f a foo out
39 touch a || framework_failure_
41 tail $mode --follow=name $fastpoll a foo > out 2>&1 & pid=$!
43 # Wait up to 12.7s for tail to start.
44 echo x > a || framework_failure_
45 tail_re='^x$' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 ||
46 { cat out; fail=1; break; }
48 # Wait up to 12.7s for tail to notice new foo file
49 ok='ok ok ok'
50 echo "$ok" > foo || framework_failure_
51 tail_re="^$ok$" retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 ||
52 { echo "$0: foo: unexpected delay?"; cat out; fail=1; break; }
54 cleanup_
55 done
57 Exit $fail