coreutils/tests/tail, branch masterMirror of https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/coreutils.git/
https://git.shady.money/coreutils/atom?h=master2026-04-10T10:09:10Ztests: Avoid accidental matching of the vendor field of $host2026-04-10T10:09:10ZBruno Haiblebruno@clisp.org2026-04-10T06:13:24Zurn:sha1:e2e8d9f389d127ab3c93ce686287c4af16c95929
* tests/chgrp/basic.sh: Test $host_os, not $host_triplet.
* tests/chown/separator.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/r-root.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail/pipe-f.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail/tail-c.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tee/tee.sh: Likewise.
* tests/touch/dangling-symlink.sh: Likewise.
tests: fix "Hangup" termination of non-interactive runs2026-02-24T19:25:58ZPádraig BradyP@draigBrady.com2026-02-24T15:44:41Zurn:sha1:8fab3c6d30d812cd681e51221bae27930f62615a
This avoids the test harness being terminated like:
make[1]: *** [Makefile:24419: check-recursive] Hangup
make[3]: *** [Makefile:24668: check-TESTS] Hangup
make: *** [Makefile:24922: check] Hangup
make[2]: *** [Makefile:24920: check-am] Hangup
make[4]: *** [Makefile:24685: tests/misc/usage_vs_refs.log] Error 129
...
This happened sometimes when the tests were being run non interactively.
For example when run like:
setsid make TESTS="tests/timeout/timeout.sh \
tests/tail/overlay-headers.sh" SUBDIRS=. -j2 check
Note the race window can be made bigger by adding a sleep
after tail is stopped in overlay-headers.sh
The race can trigger the kernel to induce its job control
mechanism to prevent stuck processes.
I.e. where it sends SIGHUP + SIGCONT to a process group
when it determines that group may become orphaned,
and there are stopped processes in that group.
* tests/tail/overlay-headers.sh: Use setsid(1) to keep the stopped
tail process in a separate process group, thus avoiding any kernel
job control protection mechanism.
* tests/timeout/timeout.sh: Use setsid(1) to avoid the kernel
checking the main process group when sleep(1) is reparented.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/80477
tests: tail/overlay-headers.sh: fix various issues2026-01-08T12:08:14ZPádraig BradyP@draigBrady.com2026-01-07T20:29:54Zurn:sha1:e1cbe82cc6131b2cb8441b948f75a0eb28bdcc40
* tests/tail/overlay-headers.sh (cleanup_): Ensure we send SIGCONT
to the tail process, otherwise we would hang if the test is terminated
while the tail process is in stopped state.
(wait4stopped_): A new function to ensure tail is in the stopped state
before we start writing to the monitored files.
Also remove "---disable-inotify" from $fastpoll so we actually
test the inotify code (where supported).
Also remove the timeout(1) wrapper, so we actually suspend tail(1).
Reported by Bruno Haible on macOS 26
maint: run 'make update-copyright'2026-01-01T18:56:16ZCollin Funkcollin.funk1@gmail.com2026-01-01T18:56:16Zurn:sha1:73d3a49f45770c45808e4fdab35ae4fe248a3cd9tests: use tail --debug to determine inotify support2025-11-17T14:50:04ZPádraig BradyP@draigBrady.com2025-11-14T17:03:38Zurn:sha1:eebe2abbb6a582550d88d0ee74be4d4f0bf253bd
* init.cfg (require_inotify_supported_): A new function that
indicates inotify support for a file in the current directory,
using tail --debug, rather than awkward strace checks etc.
* tests/tail/inotify-dir-recreate.sh: Call require_inotify_supported_.
tests/tail/inotify-only-regular.sh: Likewise.
tests/tail/inotify-race.sh: Likewise.
tests/tail/inotify-race2.sh: Likewise.
tail: add --debug to report the --follow implementation2025-11-17T13:55:12ZPádraig BradyP@draigBrady.com2025-11-14T16:26:43Zurn:sha1:d611bcbffff10b09fb98923ed1645620c2086e75
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Describe --debug.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever, tail_forever_inotify): Output
which --follow implementation is being used.
* tests/tail/debug.sh: Add a new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
tests: tail: avoid a test failure on GNU/Hurd2025-11-08T19:43:07ZCollin Funkcollin.funk1@gmail.com2025-11-08T06:15:37Zurn:sha1:56fc0e6f8d4d7cce77fa36a4dd2500b3841645ef
* tests/tail/tail-c.sh: Allow 'tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom' to run forever
on GNU/Hurd since lseek fails with ESPIPE.
tests: avoid false failure due to small timeout2025-11-08T10:14:38ZPádraig BradyP@draigBrady.com2025-11-08T10:14:38Zurn:sha1:cc88c2a8071c34b801841e3ac50f56ef00ef28d9
* tests/tail/tail-c.sh: Tests that fail after a timeout
should use as least 10s to avoid intermittent failures
on slow/loaded hosts.
tail: fix tailing larger number of lines in regular files2025-09-24T21:37:18ZHannes Braunhannes@hannesbraun.net2025-09-24T19:20:49Zurn:sha1:914972e80dbf82aac9ffe3ff1f67f1028e1a788b
* src/tail.c (file_lines): Seek to the previous block instead of the
beginning (or a little before) of the block that was just scanned.
Otherwise, the same block is read and scanned (at least partially)
again. This bug was introduced by commit v9.7-219-g976f8abc1.
* tests/tail/basic-seek.sh: Add a new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: mention the bug fix.
tests: tail: avoid false failure with overlayfs2025-09-21T12:45:54ZPádraig BradyP@draigBrady.com2025-09-21T12:45:54Zurn:sha1:076e24741685d0041d81f53fd32dc7f5878b22a9
* tests/tail/inotify-dir-recreate.sh: Add an extra check
that inotify is in use, as it's required for this test.
Inotify is avoided with overlayfs for which the
df --local check is not sufficient exclusion for.