#!/bin/sh # demonstrate that tail -F works for currently missing dirs # Before coreutils-8.6, tail -F missing/file would not # notice any subsequent availability of the missing/file. # Copyright (C) 2010-2020 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 > /dev/null || { 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 -rf out missing tail $mode -F $fastpoll missing/file > out 2>&1 & pid=$! # Wait up to 12.7s for tail to start with diagnostic: # tail: cannot open 'missing/file' for reading: No such file or directory tail_re='cannot open' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } mkdir missing || framework_failure_ (cd missing && echo x > file) || framework_failure_ # Wait up to 12.7s for this to appear in the output: # "tail: '...' has appeared; following new file" tail_re='has appeared' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: file: unexpected delay?"; cat out; fail=1; } cleanup_ done Exit $fail