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tail -f: handle "-"/stdin once again
* src/tail.c (main) [HAVE_INOTIFY]: When stdin (i.e., "-", or no args,
but not /dev/stdin) is specified on the command line, don't use inotify.
Reported by Bill Brelsford in <http://bugs.debian.org/545422>.
* tests/tail-2/follow-stdin: New file. Test for this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the test.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
This bug was introduced in coreutils-7.5 via commit ae494d4b,
2009-06-02, "tail: use inotify if it is available".
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#!/bin/sh
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# tail -f - would fail with the initial inotify implementation
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# Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
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set -x
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tail --version
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fi
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. $srcdir/test-lib.sh
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echo line > exp || framework_failure
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echo line > in || framework_failure
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fail=0
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timeout 1 tail -f < in > out 2> err
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# tail from coreutils-7.5 would fail
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test $? = 124 || fail=1
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# Ensure there was no error output.
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test -s err && fail=1
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# Ensure there was
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compare out exp || fail=1
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Exit $fail
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