#!/bin/sh # ensure that tail -f doesn't hang in various cases # 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 test head trap_sigpipe_or_skip_ # Speedup the non inotify case fastpoll='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1' for mode in '' '---disable-inotify'; do # Ensure :|tail -f doesn't hang, per POSIX echo oo > exp || framework_failure_ echo foo | timeout 10 tail -f $mode $fastpoll -c3 > out || fail=1 compare exp out || fail=1 cat <<\EOF > exp || framework_failure_ ==> standard input <== ar EOF echo bar | returns_ 1 \ timeout 10 tail -f $mode $fastpoll -c3 - missing > out || fail=1 compare exp out || fail=1 # This would wait indefinitely before v8.28 due to no EPIPE being # generated due to no data written after the first small amount. # Also check tail exits if SIGPIPE is being ignored. # Note 'trap - SIGPIPE' is ineffective if the initiating shell # has ignored SIGPIPE, but that's not the normal case. case $host_triplet in *aix*) echo 'avoiding due to no way to detect closed outputs on AIX' ;; *) for disposition in '' '-'; do (trap "$disposition" PIPE; returns_ 124 timeout 10 \ tail -n2 -f $mode $fastpoll out && touch timed_out) | head -n2 > out2 test -e timed_out && fail=1 compare exp out2 || fail=1 rm -f timed_out done ;; esac # This would wait indefinitely before v8.28 (until first write) # test -w /dev/stdout is used to check that >&- is effective # which was seen not to be the case on NetBSD 7.1 / x86_64: if env test -w /dev/stdout >/dev/null && env test ! -w /dev/stdout >&-; then (returns_ 1 timeout 10 tail -f $mode $fastpoll /dev/null >&-) || fail=1 fi done Exit $fail