#!/bin/sh # Make sure that 'tail -n0 -f' and 'tail -c0 -f' sleep # rather than doing what amounted to a busy-wait. # Copyright (C) 2003-2023 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 . # This bug was fixed for 5.0.91 # It skips the test if your system lacks a /proc/$pid/status # file, or if its contents don't look right. . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ tail require_proc_pid_status_ touch empty || framework_failure_ echo anything > nonempty || framework_failure_ # First verify that -[nc]0 without -f, exit without reading touch unreadable || framework_failure_ chmod 0 unreadable || framework_failure_ tail -c0 unreadable || fail=1 tail -n0 unreadable || fail=1 # Terminate any background tail process cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; } for mode in '' '---disable-inotify'; do for file in empty nonempty; do for c_or_n in c n; do tail --sleep=4 -${c_or_n} 0 -f $mode $file & pid=$! tail_sleeping() { local delay="$1"; sleep $delay state=$(get_process_status_ $pid) case $state in S*) ;; *) return 1;; esac } # Wait up to 1.5s for tail to sleep retry_delay_ tail_sleeping .1 4 || { echo $0: process in unexpected state: $state >&2; fail=1; } cleanup_ done done done Exit $fail