#!/bin/sh # Ensure tail -F distinguishes output with the correct headers # Between coreutils 7.5 and 8.23 inclusive, 'tail -F ...' would # not output headers for or created/renamed files in certain cases. # Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ tail check_tail_output() { local delay="$1" grep "$tail_re" out || { sleep $delay; return 1; } } # Terminate any background tail process cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; } # Speedup the non inotify case fastpoll='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1' for mode in '' '---disable-inotify'; do rm -f a b out tail $mode -F $fastpoll a b > out 2>&1 & pid=$! # Wait up to 12.7s for tail to start. tail_re="cannot open 'b'" retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } echo x > a # Wait up to 12.7s for a's header to appear in the output: tail_re='==> a <==' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: a: unexpected delay?"; cat out; fail=1; } echo y > b # Wait up to 12.7s for b's header to appear in the output: tail_re='==> b <==' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: b: unexpected delay?"; cat out; fail=1; } cleanup_ done Exit $fail