#!/bin/sh # Exercise an abort-inducing flaw in inotify-enabled tail -F. # 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 # 9 is a magic number, related to internal details of tail.c and hash.c n=9 seq $n | xargs touch || framework_failure_ 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 -f out tail $mode $fastpoll -qF $(seq $n) > out 2>&1 & pid=$! # Wait up to 12.7s for tail to start echo x > $n tail_re='^x$' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } mv 1 f || framework_failure_ # Wait 12.7s for this diagnostic: # tail: '1' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory tail_re='inaccessible' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } # Trigger the bug. Before the fix, this would provoke the abort. echo a > 1 || framework_failure_ # Wait up to 6.3s for the "tail: '1' has appeared; ..." message # (or for the buggy tail to die) tail_re='has appeared' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 6 || { cat out; fail=1; } # Double check that tail hasn't aborted kill -0 $pid || fail=1 cleanup_ done Exit $fail