#!/bin/sh # Ensure that tail -f works on an append-only file # Requires root access to do chattr +a, as well as an ext[23] or xfs file system # Copyright (C) 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 # 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 tail --version fi . $srcdir/test-lib.sh require_root_ chattr_a_works=1 touch f chattr +a f 2>/dev/null || chattr_a_works=0 ( echo x > f ) 2>/dev/null && chattr_a_works=0 echo x >> f || chattr_a_works=0 if test $chattr_a_works = 0; then skip_test_ "chattr +a doesn't work on this file system" fi fail=0 sleep 1 & pid=$! tail --pid=$pid -f f > /dev/null 2>&1 || fail=1 chattr -a f 2>/dev/null Exit $fail