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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".
This commit is contained in:
Jim Meyering
2009-09-07 08:37:08 +02:00
parent 15f26e296b
commit cdfb703c5d
5 changed files with 65 additions and 1 deletions

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#!/bin/sh
# tail -f - would fail with the initial inotify implementation
# Copyright (C) 2009 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
set -x
tail --version
fi
. $srcdir/test-lib.sh
echo line > exp || framework_failure
echo line > in || framework_failure
fail=0
timeout 1 tail -f < in > out 2> err
# tail from coreutils-7.5 would fail
test $? = 124 || fail=1
# Ensure there was no error output.
test -s err && fail=1
# Ensure there was
compare out exp || fail=1
Exit $fail