#!/bin/sh # Demonstrate that tail -f works when renaming the tailed files. # Between coreutils 7.5 and 8.23 inclusive, 'tail -f a' would # stop tracking additions to b after 'mv a b'. # Copyright (C) 2015 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 check_tail_output() { local delay="$1" grep "$tail_re" out || { sleep $delay; return 1; } } touch a || framework_failure_ for mode in '' '---disable-inotify'; do tail $mode -f -s.1 a > out 2>&1 & pid=$! # Wait up to 12.7s for tail to start. echo x > a tail_re='^x$' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || fail=1 mv a b || fail=1 echo y >> b # Wait up to 12.7s for "y" to appear in the output: tail_re='^y$' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || fail=1 kill $pid wait $pid done Exit $fail