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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-01-19 12:09:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-01-19 12:09:12 +0100 |
| commit | f6240c49df11d1635782818d0cc90161b5b988cc (patch) | |
| tree | e04fe3c96dba2b17684e633e5b27a1a7d523fdc4 /tests | |
| parent | b52a88607f66311e930bf5b4e8a9b465e38086ca (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f6240c49df11d1635782818d0cc90161b5b988cc.tar.xz | |
tests: tail-2/infloop-1 is racy
* tests/tail-2/infloop-1: Add a comment to that effect.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/tail-2/infloop-1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/tail-2/infloop-1 b/tests/tail-2/infloop-1 index bf12a1143..6a456deac 100755 --- a/tests/tail-2/infloop-1 +++ b/tests/tail-2/infloop-1 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh # This test would fail with tail from pre-1.22i textutils. -# Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2006-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2006-2009 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 @@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ done tail -n 1 t & tail_pid=$! kill $yes_pid + +# This test is racy, and can fail under unusual circumstances. +# On a busy system, "yes" will fail to write +# (and hence fail to be killed by SIGPIPE) in that 1-second interval. +# Then the following kill will succeed and cause this test to fail. sleep 1 fail=0 |