2 # ensure that tail -F doesn't leak inotify resources
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19 .
"${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ .
/src
22 # Inotify not used on remote file systems
25 grep '^#define HAVE_INOTIFY 1' "$CONFIG_HEADER" >/dev
/null \
26 || skip_
'inotify required'
28 require_strace_
'inotify_add_watch,inotify_rm_watch'
33 grep "$tail_re" out
> /dev
/null ||
34 { sleep $delay; return 1; }
37 # Wait up to 25.5 seconds for grep REGEXP 'out' to succeed.
38 grep_timeout
() { tail_re
="$1" retry_delay_ check_tail_output
.1 8; }
43 grep "$strace_re" strace.out
> /dev
/null ||
44 { sleep $delay; return 1; }
54 # Terminate any background tail process
55 cleanup_
() { kill $pid 2>/dev
/null
&& wait $pid; }
57 fastpoll
='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1'
59 touch k || framework_failure_
61 # Note the timeout guard isn't strictly necessary here,
62 # however without it strace will ignore SIGTERM.
63 # strace does always honor SIGTERM with the -I2 option,
64 # though that's not available on RHEL6 for example.
65 timeout
180 strace
-e inotify_add_watch
,inotify_rm_watch
-o strace.out \
66 tail -F $fastpoll k
>> out
2>&1 & pid
=$
!
68 reverted_to_polling_
=0
74 # Wait for watch on (new) file
75 strace_re
='inotify_add_watch.*MODIFY' retry_delay_ check_strace
.1 8 ||
78 # Assume this is not because we're leaking
79 # (resources may already be depleted)
80 # The explicit check for inotify_rm_watch should confirm that.
81 grep -F 'reverting to polling' out
>/dev
/null
&& skip_
'inotify unused'
83 # Otherwise failure is unknown
84 test "$no_watch_" && { cat out
; framework_failure_
'no inotify_add_watch'; }
87 # wait for tail to detect the rename
88 grep_timeout
'inaccessible' ||
89 { cleanup_fail
'failed to detect rename'; break; }
91 # Note we strace here rather than consuming all available watches
92 # to be more efficient, but more importantly avoid depleting resources.
93 # Note also available resources can currently be tuned with:
94 # sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=$smallish_number
95 # However that impacts all processes for the current user, and also
96 # may not be supported in future, instead being auto scaled to RAM
97 # like the Linux epoll resources were.
98 if test "$i" -gt 1; then
99 strace_re
='inotify_rm_watch' retry_delay_ check_strace
.1 8 ||
100 { cleanup_fail
'failed to find inotify_rm_watch syscall'; break; }
103 >out
&& >strace.out || framework_failure_
'failed to reset output files'