#!/bin/sh # This test would fail on solaris5.7 with tail from pre-1.22k textutils. # The problem was that using the solaris5.7 setvbuf function to turn off # buffering doesn't flush stdout. # FIXME: actually, I couldn't find a way to write the test (without resorting # to use of expect) so that it would provoke the failure on solaris5.7. # To exercise the bug, cat's stdout seems to have to be directed # to a terminal. if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then set -x tail --version fi tmp=tail-flush.$$ pwd=`pwd` trap "cd $pwd; rm -rf $tmp" 0 1 2 3 15 test_failure=0 mkdir $tmp || test_failure=1 cd $tmp || test_failure=1 if test $test_failure = 1; then echo 'failure in testing framework' exit 1 fi echo fubar > in tail -f in | cat > out & pid=$! sleep 1 kill $pid fail=0 test "`cat out`" = fubar || fail=1 exit $fail