#!/bin/sh # inotify-based tail -f didn't flush its initial output before blocking # Copyright (C) 2009-2010 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 . $srcdir/test-lib.sh echo line > in || fail=1 # Output should be buffered since we're writing to file # so we're depending on the flush to write out tail -f in > out & tail_pid=$! # Wait for 1.5s for the file to be flushed. tail_flush() { local delay="$1" test -s out || { sleep "$delay"; return 1; } } retry_delay_ tail_flush .1 5 || fail=1 kill $tail_pid Exit $fail