#!/bin/sh # This test would fail with tail from pre-1.22i textutils. # Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2006-2009 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 . $srcdir/test-lib.sh yes > t & yes_pid=$! while :; do test -s t && break done tail -n 1 t & tail_pid=$! kill $yes_pid # This test is racy, and can fail under unusual circumstances. # On a busy system, "yes" will fail to write # (and hence fail to be killed by SIGPIPE) in that 1-second interval. # Then the following kill will succeed and cause this test to fail. sleep 1 fail=0 kill $tail_pid && fail=1 || : Exit $fail