tests: tail-2/assert: avoid risk of race condition
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1 #!/bin/sh
2 # Test for assertion failure in "test".
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20 # This test fails with tail from textutils-2.0.
21 # It would get something like this:
22 # tail: tail.c:718: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed.
23 # Aborted
24 # due to a race condition in which a dev/inode pair is reused.
26 if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
27 set -x
28 tail --version
31 # Not "expensive" per se, but sleeping for so long is annoying.
32 . $srcdir/test-lib.sh
33 very_expensive_
35 ok='ok ok ok'
37 touch a foo
38 tail --follow=name a foo > err 2>&1 &
39 tail_pid=$!
40 # Arrange for the tail process to die after 12 seconds.
41 (sleep 12; kill $tail_pid) &
43 echo sleeping for 7 seconds...
45 # Wait for the backgrounded `tail' to start before removing foo.
46 # Otherwise, without --retry, tail wouldn't try to open `foo' again.
47 while :; do
48 env kill -0 $tail_pid && break
49 echo sleep .1
50 sleep .1
51 done
53 rm -f foo
54 sleep 6
55 echo $ok > f
56 mv f foo
58 # echo waiting....
59 wait
61 case "`cat err`" in
62 *$ok) fail=0;;
63 *) fail=1;;
64 esac
66 test $fail = 1 && cat err
68 Exit $fail