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coreutils/tests/tail-2/flush-initial.sh
Jim Meyering 77da73c754 maint: update all copyright year number ranges
Run "make update-copyright", but then also run this,
  perl -pi -e 's/2\d\d\d-//' tests/sample-test
to make that one script use the single most recent year number.
2013-01-01 04:51:20 +01:00

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#!/bin/sh
# inotify-based tail -f didn't flush its initial output before blocking
# Copyright (C) 2009-2013 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/>.
. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
print_ver_ tail
echo line > in || fail=1
# Output should be buffered since we're writing to file
# so we're depending on the flush to write out
tail -f in > out &
tail_pid=$!
# Wait for 1.5s for the file to be flushed.
tail_flush()
{
local delay="$1"
test -s out ||
{ sleep "$delay"; return 1; }
}
retry_delay_ tail_flush .1 5 || fail=1
kill $tail_pid
Exit $fail