2 # Ensure that "tail -f fifo" tails indefinitely.
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19 .
"${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ .
/src
25 echo 1 > exp || framework_failure_
27 # Terminate any background tail process
28 cleanup_
() { kill $pid 2>/dev
/null
&& wait $pid; }
30 # Speedup the non inotify case
31 fastpoll
='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1'
33 timeout
10 tail $fastpoll -f fifo
> out
& pid
=$
!
35 check_tail_output
() { sleep $1; test -s out
; }
37 # Wait 12.7s for tail to write something.
38 retry_delay_ check_tail_output
.1 7 || fail
=1
40 compare exp out || fail
=1
42 # Ensure tail is still running
43 kill -0 $pid || fail
=1