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tests: tail-2/assert: reduce risk of race condition

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* tests/tail2/assert: This reverts commit be853120, 25-08-2009,
"tests: tail-2/assert: avoid risk of race condition"
kill -0 doesn't send a signal and so will only confirm that the
background process was forked, which we know already because
we have its pid.
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Pádraig Brady
2009-09-08 10:00:01 +01:00
parent a863644397
commit e8591fd39f
1 changed files with 2 additions and 6 deletions
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@@ -42,13 +42,9 @@ tail_pid=$!
echo sleeping for 7 seconds... echo sleeping for 7 seconds...
# Wait for the backgrounded `tail' to start before removing foo. # Give the backgrounded `tail' a chance to start before removing foo.
# Otherwise, without --retry, tail wouldn't try to open `foo' again. # Otherwise, without --retry, tail wouldn't try to open `foo' again.
while :; do sleep 1
env kill -0 $tail_pid && break
echo sleep .1
sleep .1
done
rm -f foo rm -f foo
sleep 6 sleep 6