#!/bin/sh # Ensure that "tail -f fifo" tails indefinitely. # Copyright (C) 2009-2012 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 . . "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src print_ver_ tail mkfifo_or_skip_ fifo echo 1 > fifo & echo 1 > exp || framework_failure_ timeout 10 tail -f fifo > out & pid=$! check_tail_output() { local n_sec="$1" test -s out || { sleep $n_sec; return 1; } } # Wait 6.3s for tail to write something. retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || fail=1 compare exp out || fail=1 # Kill the still-running tail, or fail if it's gone. kill $pid || fail=1 Exit $fail