#!/bin/sh # inotify-based tail -f didn't flush its initial output before blocking # Copyright (C) 2009-2020 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 # Speedup the non inotify case fastpoll='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1' # Terminate any background tail process cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; } echo line > in || framework_failure_ # Output should be buffered since we're writing to file # so we're depending on the flush to write out tail $fastpoll -f in > out & pid=$! # Wait for 3.1s for the file to be flushed. tail_flush() { local delay="$1" sleep $delay test -s out } retry_delay_ tail_flush .1 5 || fail=1 cleanup_ Exit $fail