#!/bin/sh # ensure that tail -F handles rotation # Copyright (C) 2009-2011 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=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src expensive_ # Wait up to 10 seconds for grep REGEXP FILE to succeed. # Usage: grep_timeout REGEXP FILE grep_timeout() { local j for j in $(seq 100); do grep $1 $2 > /dev/null && return 0 sleep 0.1 done return 1 } # For details, see # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00213.html # 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 $i rm -rf k x out :>k && :>x && timeout 10 tail -F k > out 2>&1 & pid=$! sleep .1 echo b > k; # wait for b to appear in out grep_timeout b out || fail_ failed to find b in out while :; do grep b out > /dev/null && break; done mv x k # wait for tail to detect the rename grep_timeout tail: out || fail_ failed to detect rename echo ok >> k found=0 # wait up to 10 seconds for "ok" to appear in out grep_timeout ok out && found=1 kill $pid test $found = 0 && { fail=1; cat out; break; } done Exit $fail