#!/bin/sh # Demonstrate that tail -f works when renaming the tailed files. # Between coreutils 7.5 and 8.23 inclusive, 'tail -f a' would # stop tracking additions to b after 'mv a b'. # Copyright (C) 2015-2023 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 out touch a || framework_failure_ tail $mode $fastpoll -f a > out 2>&1 & pid=$! # Wait up to 12.7s for tail to start. echo x > a tail_re='^x$' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } mv a b || framework_failure_ echo y >> b # Wait up to 12.7s for "y" to appear in the output: tail_re='^y$' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } cleanup_ done Exit $fail