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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2025-11-08 10:14:38 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2025-11-08 10:14:38 +0000
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parentbuild: update gnulib submodule to latest (diff)
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tests: avoid false failure due to small timeout
* tests/tail/tail-c.sh: Tests that fail after a timeout should use as least 10s to avoid intermittent failures on slow/loaded hosts.
-rwxr-xr-xtests/tail/tail-c.sh2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/tail/tail-c.sh b/tests/tail/tail-c.sh
index 23519918b..9672b9fb6 100755
--- a/tests/tail/tail-c.sh
+++ b/tests/tail/tail-c.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ compare exp out || fail=1
# Any part of /dev/urandom, if it exists, should be valid for tail -c.
if test -r /dev/urandom; then
# Or at least it should not read it forever
- timeout --verbose 1 tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom >/dev/null 2>err
+ timeout --verbose 10 tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom >/dev/null 2>err
case $? in
0) ;;
# Solaris 11 allows negative seek but then gives EINVAL on read