tests: tail-2/flush-initial: correct race avoidance code

* tests/tail-2/flush-initial: Wait for the file to be nonempty,
not for the process.  Based on a suggestion from Pádraig Brady.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tests/tail-2/flush-initial b/tests/tail-2/flush-initial
index 2deff84f3..515b29d8b 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/flush-initial
+++ b/tests/tail-2/flush-initial
@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ echo line > in || fail=1
 stdbuf --output=1K tail -f in > out &
 tail_pid=$!
 
-# Wait for the backgrounded `tail' to start.
-while :; do
-  env kill -0 $tail_pid && break
+# Wait for 1 second for the file to be flushed.
+for i in $(seq 10); do
+  test -s out && break
+  echo sleep .1s
   sleep .1
 done