#!/bin/sh # Demonstrate that tail -F works when renaming the tailed files. # Between coreutils 7.5 and 8.2 inclusive, 'tail -F a b' would # stop tracking additions to b after 'mv a b'. # Copyright (C) 2009-2023 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 check_tail_output() { local delay="$1" if [ "$tail_re" ]; then grep "$tail_re" err || { sleep $delay; return 1; } else local tail_re="==> $file <==@$data@" tr '\n' @ < out | grep "$tail_re" > /dev/null || { sleep $delay; return 1; } fi unset tail_re } # Terminate any background tail process cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; } # Speedup the non inotify case fastpoll='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1' for mode in '' '---disable-inotify'; do rm -f a b out err touch a b || framework_failure_ tail $mode -F $fastpoll a b >out 2>err & pid=$! # Wait up to 12.7s for tail to start. echo x > a file=a data=x retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } mv a b || framework_failure_ # Wait 12.7s for this diagnostic: # tail: 'a' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory tail_re='inaccessible' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } # Wait 12.7s for this diagnostic: # tail: 'b' has been replaced; following new file tail_re='replaced' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { cat out; fail=1; } # Wait up to 12.7s for "x" to be displayed: file='b' data='x' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: b: unexpected delay?"; cat out; fail=1; } echo x2 > a # Wait up to 12.7s for this to appear in the output: # "tail: '...' has appeared; following new file" tail_re='has appeared' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: a: unexpected delay?"; cat out; fail=1; } # Wait up to 12.7s for "x2" to be displayed: file='a' data='x2' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: a: unexpected delay 2?"; cat out; fail=1; } echo y >> b # Wait up to 12.7s for "y" to appear in the output: file='b' data='y' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: b: unexpected delay 2?"; cat out; fail=1; } echo z >> a # Wait up to 12.7s for "z" to appear in the output: file='a' data='z' retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 7 || { echo "$0: a: unexpected delay 3?"; cat out; fail=1; } cleanup_ done Exit $fail