#!/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 touch here || framework_failure touch k || framework_failure { touch unreadable && chmod a-r unreadable; } || framework_failure fail=0 for inotify in ---disable-inotify ''; do timeout 1 tail -s0.1 -f $inotify not_here test $? = 124 && fail=1 if test ! -r unreadable; then # can't test this when root timeout 1 tail -s0.1 -f $inotify unreadable test $? = 124 && fail=1 fi timeout 1 tail -s0.1 -f $inotify here 2>tail.err test $? = 124 || fail=1 # `tail -F' must wait in any case. timeout 1 tail -s0.1 -F $inotify here 2>>tail.err test $? = 124 || fail=1 if test ! -r unreadable; then # can't test this when root timeout 1 tail -s0.1 -F $inotify unreadable test $? = 124 || fail=1 fi timeout 1 tail -s0.1 -F $inotify not_here test $? = 124 || fail=1 test -s tail.err && fail=1 :>tail.err tail -s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=2 -F $inotify k > tail.out & pid=$! 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 done Exit $fail