#!/bin/sh # Ensure that tail does not ignore data that is appended to a tailed-forever # file between tail's initial read-to-EOF, and when the inotify watches # are established in tail_forever_inotify. That data could be ignored # indefinitely if no *other* data is appended, but it would be printed as # soon as any additional appended data is detected. # 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 sleep # Terminate any background gdb/tail process cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid kill $sleep 2>/dev/null && wait $sleep } touch file || framework_failure_ touch tail.out || framework_failure_ ( timeout 10s gdb --version ) > gdb.out 2>&1 case $(cat gdb.out) in *'GNU gdb'*) ;; *) skip_ "can't run gdb";; esac # Break on a line rather than a symbol, to cater for inline functions break_src="$abs_top_srcdir/src/tail.c" break_line=$(grep -n ^tail_forever_inotify "$break_src") || framework_failure_ break_line=$(echo "$break_line" | cut -d: -f1) || framework_failure_ # Note we get tail to monitor a background sleep process # rather than using timeout(1), as timeout sends SIGCONT # signals to its monitored process, and gdb (7.9 at least) # has _intermittent_ issues with this. # Sending SIGCONT resulted in either delayed child termination, # or no child termination resulting in a hung test. # See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18364 env sleep 10 & sleep=$! # See if gdb works and # tail_forever_inotify is compiled and run gdb -nx --batch-silent \ --eval-command="break $break_line" \ --eval-command="run --pid=$sleep -f file" \ --eval-command='quit' \ tail < /dev/null > gdb.out 2>&1 kill $sleep || skip_ 'breakpoint not hit' wait $sleep # FIXME: The above is seen to _intermittently_ fail with: # warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libc.so.6" is not at the expected address # warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations compare /dev/null gdb.out || skip_ "can't set breakpoints in tail" env sleep 10 & sleep=$! # Run "tail -f file", stopping to append a line just before # inotify initialization, and then continue. Before the fix, # that just-appended line would never be output. gdb -nx --batch-silent \ --eval-command="break $break_line" \ --eval-command="run --pid=$sleep -f file >> tail.out" \ --eval-command='shell echo never-seen-with-tail-7.5 >> file' \ --eval-command='continue' \ --eval-command='quit' \ tail < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 & pid=$! tail --pid=$pid -f tail.out | (read REPLY; kill $pid) # gdb has a bug in Debian's gdb-6.8-3 at least that causes it to not # cleanup and exit correctly when it receives a SIGTERM, but # killing sleep, should cause the tail process and thus gdb to exit. kill $sleep wait $sleep wait $pid compare /dev/null tail.out && fail=1 Exit $fail