#!/bin/sh # Ensure that tail does not ignore data that is appended to a tailed-forever # file between tail's initial read-to-EOF, and when the inotify watches # are established in tail_forever_inotify. That data could be ignored # indefinitely if no *other* data is appended, but it would be printed as # soon as any additional appended data is detected. # Copyright (C) 2009-2013 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 # Don't run this test by default because sometimes it's skipped as noted below. # Also gdb has a bug in Debian's gdb-6.8-3 at least that causes it to not # cleanup and exit correctly when it receives a SIGTERM, thus hanging the test. very_expensive_ touch file || framework_failure_ touch tail.out || framework_failure_ ( timeout 10s gdb --version ) > gdb.out 2>&1 case $(cat gdb.out) in *'GNU gdb'*) ;; *) skip_ "can't run gdb";; esac # See if gdb works and # tail_forever_inotify is compiled and not inlined timeout 10s gdb -nx --batch-silent \ --eval-command='break tail_forever_inotify' \ --eval-command='run -f file' \ --eval-command='quit' \ tail < /dev/null > gdb.out 2>&1 # FIXME: The above is seen to _intermittently_ fail with: # warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libc.so.6" is not at the expected address # warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations test -s gdb.out && { cat gdb.out; skip_ "can't set breakpoints in tail"; } # Run "tail -f file", stopping to append a line just before # inotify initialization, and then continue. Before the fix, # that just-appended line would never be output. timeout 10s gdb -nx --batch-silent \ --eval-command='break tail_forever_inotify' \ --eval-command='run -f file >> tail.out' \ --eval-command="shell echo never-seen-with-tail-7.5 >> file" \ --eval-command='continue' \ --eval-command='quit' \ tail < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 & pid=$! tail --pid=$pid -f tail.out | (read; kill $pid) test -s tail.out || fail=1 Exit $fail