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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-02-11 17:38:56 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-02-16 00:51:38 +0000
commita2f81776adfc8d8ad39dd775648ee841aa352752 (patch)
treee656a0824c9bcdf62b279c92204e7042b8cd197c /tests
parent11d84c10ce88772482c4b99b0bfd730778c437a0 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a2f81776adfc8d8ad39dd775648ee841aa352752.tar.xz
tests: fix an unlikely race in tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2
* tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: Explicitly kill the process by using cleanup_() rather than using a timeout which may trigger a failure on very slow systems (< 20 iterations of the loop per second).
Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
-rwxr-xr-xtests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse23
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 b/tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2
index 2e567c799..c0cca2338 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2
+++ b/tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ touch f || framework_failure
debug='---disable-inotify -s .001'
debug=
-timeout 10 tail $debug -F f & pid=$!
+tail $debug -F f & pid=$!
+cleanup_() { kill $pid; }
for i in $(seq 200); do
kill -0 $pid || break;