#!/bin/sh # Test for assertion failure in "test". # Copyright (C) 1999-2000, 2004, 2006-2011 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 . # This test fails with tail from textutils-2.0. # It would get something like this: # tail: tail.c:718: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed. # Aborted # due to a race condition in which a dev/inode pair is reused. . "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src print_ver_ tail # Not "expensive" per se, but sleeping for so long is annoying. very_expensive_ ok='ok ok ok' touch a foo tail --follow=name a foo > err 2>&1 & tail_pid=$! # Arrange for the tail process to die after 12 seconds. (sleep 12; kill $tail_pid) & echo sleeping for 7 seconds... # Give the backgrounded `tail' a chance to start before removing foo. # Otherwise, without --retry, tail wouldn't try to open `foo' again. sleep 1 rm -f foo sleep 6 echo $ok > f mv f foo # echo waiting.... wait case "`cat err`" in *$ok) ;; *) fail=1;; esac test $fail = 1 && cat err Exit $fail