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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-04-24 23:20:01 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-04-25 10:59:15 +0200
commit61de57cd2369914542d44d32b4a2e001f638ada8 (patch)
treef50084d419f5f759bbd04ed90e74424813c432dc /tests
parent32eb31999f62605872cfc1c32b85bd9a5fcd198e (diff)
downloadcoreutils-61de57cd2369914542d44d32b4a2e001f638ada8.tar.xz
tail --follow=name no longer implies --retry
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Just as without inotify, tail --follow=name now terminates when the last tailed-by-name file is unlinked or moved aside. This bug was introduced on 2009-06-15 via commit ae494d4b, "tail: use inotify if it is available". Reported by Tim Underwood in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/22286 * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this. * tests/tail-2/follow-name: Test for this. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
-rw-r--r--tests/Makefile.am1
-rwxr-xr-xtests/tail-2/follow-name32
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index 685eb52b9..2f4a5613a 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ TESTS = \
tail-2/assert-2 \
tail-2/big-4gb \
tail-2/flush-initial \
+ tail-2/follow-name \
tail-2/follow-stdin \
tail-2/pipe-f \
tail-2/pipe-f2 \
diff --git a/tests/tail-2/follow-name b/tests/tail-2/follow-name
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ef9434a60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tail-2/follow-name
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# ensure that --follow=name does not imply --retry
+
+# Copyright (C) 2011 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+. "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src
+print_ver_ tail
+
+cat <<\EOF > exp || framework_failure_
+tail: cannot open `no-such' for reading: No such file or directory
+tail: no files remaining
+EOF
+
+timeout 10 tail --follow=name no-such > out 2> err
+test $? = 1 || fail=1
+
+compare err exp || fail=1
+
+Exit $fail