#!/bin/sh # This test would fail with tail from pre-1.22i textutils. # Copyright (C) 1999-2014 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 . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ tail yes > t & yes_pid=$! while :; do test -s t \ && break sleep .1 done tail -n 1 t & tail_pid=$! kill $yes_pid # This test is racy, and can fail under unusual circumstances. # On a very busy system, tail will fail to notice that $yes_pid is gone. # Then the following kill will succeed and cause this test to fail. # Wait for up to 3 seconds for tail to detect the death of $yes_pid. for i in $(seq 30); do kill -0 $tail_pid || break echo sleep 0.1s sleep .1 done kill $tail_pid && fail=1 || : Exit $fail