#!/bin/sh # ensure that --follow=name does not imply --retry # Copyright (C) 2011-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ tail cat <<\EOF > exp || framework_failure_ tail: cannot open 'no-such' for reading: No such file or directory tail: no files remaining EOF returns_ 1 timeout 10 tail --follow=name no-such > out 2> err || fail=1 # Remove an inconsequential inotify warning so # we can compare against the above error sed '/inotify cannot be used/d' err > k && mv k err compare exp err || fail=1 # Between coreutils 8.34 and 9.5 inclusive, with inotify, tail would # have waited indefinitely when a file was moved to the same file system. # Also without inotify tail would have exited with success. cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; } fastpoll='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1' # speedup non inotify systems for inotify in '' '---disable-inotify'; do touch file || framework_failure_ timeout 10 tail --follow=name $fastpoll file & pid=$! sleep .1 # Usually in tail_forever{,_inotify}() here mv file file.unfollow || framework_failure_ wait $pid test $? = 1 || fail=1 rm -f file file.unfollow || framework_failure_ done Exit $fail