#!/bin/sh # ensure that tail -F handles rotation # Copyright (C) 2009-2014 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 . if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then set -x tail --version fi . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src check_tail_output() { local delay="$1" grep "$tail_re" out > /dev/null || { sleep $delay; return 1; } } # Wait up to 25.5 seconds for grep REGEXP 'out' to succeed. grep_timeout() { tail_re="$1" retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 8; } # For details, see # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00213.html cleanup_fail() { cat out warn_ $1 kill $pid } # Perform at least this many iterations, because on multi-core systems # the offending sequence of events can be surprisingly uncommon. for i in $(seq 50); do echo $i rm -f k x out # Normally less than a second is required here, but with heavy load # and a lot of disk activity, even 20 seconds is insufficient, which # leads to this timeout killing tail before the "ok" is written below. >k && >x || framework_failure_ failed to initialize files timeout 60 tail -F k > out 2>&1 & pid=$! echo b > k; # wait for b to appear in out grep_timeout 'b' || { cleanup_fail 'failed to find b in out'; break; } mv x k # wait for tail to detect the rename grep_timeout 'tail:' || { cleanup_fail 'failed to detect rename'; break; } echo ok >> k # wait for "ok" to appear in 'out' grep_timeout 'ok' || { cleanup_fail 'failed to detect echoed ok'; break; } kill $pid done wait Exit $fail