#!/bin/sh # demonstrate that tail -F works for currently missing dirs # Before coreutils-8.6, tail -F missing/file would not # notice any subsequent availability of the missing/file. # Copyright (C) 2010-2013 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 . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ tail debug='---disable-inotify' debug= tail $debug -F -s.1 missing/file > out 2>&1 & pid=$! check_tail_output() { local delay="$1" grep "$tail_re" out > /dev/null || { sleep $delay; return 1; } } # Wait up to 6.3s for tail to start with diagnostic: # tail: cannot open 'missing/file' for reading: No such file or directory tail_re='cannot open' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || fail=1 mkdir missing || fail=1 (cd missing && echo x > file) # Wait up to 6.3s for this to appear in the output: # "tail: '...' has appeared; following end of new file" tail_re='has appeared' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: file: unexpected delay?"; cat out; fail=1; } kill -HUP $pid cleanup() { local delay="$1" rm -rf missing || { sleep $delay; return 1; } } # Try repeatedly to remove the temporary directory. # This is normally unnecessary, because the containing directory will # be removed by code from init.sh. However, when this particular test # is run on an NFS-mounted volume, sometimes init.sh's cleanup code # fails because the directory is not yet really empty, perhaps because # the tail process (reading missing/file) is not yet killed. retry_delay_ cleanup .1 6 Exit $fail