tests: avoid a race in tail --retry testing
[coreutils.git] / tests / misc / wc-parallel.sh
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1 #!/bin/sh
2 # Ensure that wc prints counts atomically
3 # so that concurrent processes don't intersperse their output
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20 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
21 print_ver_ wc
23 (mkdir tmp && cd tmp && seq 2000 | xargs touch)
25 # This will output at least 16KiB per process
26 # and start 3 processes, with 2 running concurrently,
27 # which triggers often on Fedora 11 at least.
28 (find tmp tmp tmp -type f | xargs -n2000 -P2 wc) |
29 sed -n '/0 0 0 /!p' |
30 grep . > /dev/null && fail=1
32 Exit $fail