#!/bin/sh # 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. if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then set -x tail --version fi tmp=tail-assert.$$ pwd=`pwd` trap "cd $pwd; rm -rf $dir" 0 1 2 3 15 test_failure=0 mkdir $tmp || test_failure=1 cd $tmp || test_failure=1 if test $test_failure = 1; then echo 'failure in testing framework' exit 1 fi ok='ok ok ok' touch a foo tail --follow=name a foo > err 2>&1 & tail_pid=$! # Arrange for the tail process to die after 12 seconds. (sleep 12; kill $tail_pid) & rm -f foo echo sleep 7... sleep 7 echo $ok > f mv f foo echo waiting.... wait case "`cat err`" in *$ok) fail=0;; *) fail=1;; esac test $fail = 1 && cat err exit $fail