tests: tail-2/assert: avoid risk of race condition

* tests/tail-2/assert: Avoid spurious failure due to race condition.
Rather than sleeping for 1 second and crossing fingers,
wait explicitly for backgrounded tail process to start.
Otherwise, this test would fail under heavy load.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tests/tail-2/assert b/tests/tail-2/assert
index 416f206a1..623c3684f 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/assert
+++ b/tests/tail-2/assert
@@ -42,9 +42,13 @@ tail_pid=$!
 
 echo sleeping for 7 seconds...
 
-# Give the backgrounded `tail' a chance to start before removing foo.
+# Wait for the backgrounded `tail' to start before removing foo.
 # Otherwise, without --retry, tail wouldn't try to open `foo' again.
-sleep 1
+while :; do
+  env kill -0 $tail_pid && break
+  echo sleep .1
+  sleep .1
+done
 
 rm -f foo
 sleep 6