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#!/bin/sh
# Demonstrate a bug in `tail -cN' when operating on files of size 4G and larger
# Fixed in coreutils-4.5.2.
# Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006 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, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
# 02110-1301, USA.
. $srcdir/../expensive
if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
set -x
tail --version
fi
pwd=`pwd`
t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$
trap 'status=$?; cd "$pwd" && chmod -R u+rwx $t0 && rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15
framework_failure=0
mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1
cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
# Create a file of size exactly 4GB (2^32) with 8 bytes
# at the beginning and another set of 8 bytes at the end.
# The rest will be NUL bytes. On most modern systems, the following
# creates a file that takes up only a few KB. Here, du -sh says 16K.
echo abcdefgh | tr -d '\n' > big || framework_failure=1
echo 87654321 | tr -d '\n' > tmp || framework_failure=1
# Seek 4GB - 8
dd bs=1 seek=4294967288 if=tmp of=big 2> err || dd_failed=1
if test "$dd_failed" = 1; then
cat err 1>&2
echo "$0: cannot create a file large enough for this test," 1>&2
echo "$0: possibly because this system doesn't support large files;" 1>&2
echo "$0: Consider rerunning this test on a different file system." 1>&2
(exit 77); exit 77
fi
if test $framework_failure = 1; then
echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2
(exit 1); exit 1
fi
fail=0
tail -c1 big > out || fail=1
# Append a newline.
echo >> out
cat <<\EOF > exp
1
EOF
cmp out exp || fail=1
test $fail = 1 && diff out exp 2> /dev/null
(exit $fail); exit $fail
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