#!/bin/sh # Ensure that cat outputs processed data immediately. # Copyright (C) 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 # 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 . if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then set -x cat --version fi . $srcdir/test-lib.sh # Use a fifo rather than a pipe in the tests below # so that the producer (cat) will wait until the # consumer (dd) opens the fifo therefore increasing # the chance that dd will read the data from each # write separately. mkfifo fifo || framework_failure fail=0 echo 1 > exp dd count=1 if=fifo > out & (echo 1; sleep .5; echo 2) | cat -v > fifo wait # for dd to complete # Though unlikely, this test may fail because dd was starved # between opening the fifo and reading from it until after the # second echo. So ask to double check rather than failing. compare out exp || skip_test_ "possible test failure. Please verify." Exit $fail