#!/bin/sh # Make sure that `tail -f' returns immediately if a file doesn't exist # while `tail -F' waits for it to appear. # Copyright (C) 2003, 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 . $srcdir/test-lib.sh require_proc_pid_status_ touch here || framework_failure touch k || framework_failure (touch unreadable && chmod a-r unreadable) || framework_failure fail=0 tail -s0.1 -f not_here & pid=$! sleep .5 state=$(get_process_status_ $pid) if test -n "$state"; then case $state in S*) echo $0: process still active 1>&2; fail=1 ;; *) ;; esac kill $pid fi # Check if the file is really not accessible before use it. if ! cat unreadable; then tail -s0.1 -f unreadable & pid=$! sleep .5 state=$(get_process_status_ $pid) if test -n "$state"; then case $state in S*) echo $0: process still active 1>&2; fail=1 ;; *) ;; esac kill $pid fi fi (tail -s0.1 -f here 2>tail.err) & pid=$! sleep .5 state=$(get_process_status_ $pid) if test -n "$state"; then case $state in S*) ;; *) echo $0: process died 1>&2; fail=1 ;; esac kill $pid fi # `tail -F' must wait in any case. (tail -s0.1 -F here 2>>tail.err) & pid=$! sleep .5 state=$(get_process_status_ $pid) if test -n "$state"; then case $state in S*) ;; *) echo $0: process died 1>&2; fail=1 ;; esac kill $pid fi tail -s0.1 -F unreadable & pid=$! sleep .5 state=$(get_process_status_ $pid) if test -n "$state"; then case $state in S*) ;; *) echo $0: process died 1>&2; fail=1 ;; esac kill $pid fi tail -s0.1 -F not_here & pid=$! sleep .5 state=$(get_process_status_ $pid) if test -n "$state"; then case $state in S*) ;; *) echo $0: process died 1>&2; fail=1 ;; esac kill $pid fi test -s tail.err && fail=1 tail -s.1 -F k > tail.out & pid=$! sleep .5 mv k l sleep .5 touch k mv k l sleep .5 echo NO >> l sleep .5 kill $pid test -s tail.out && fail=1 Exit $fail