#!/bin/sh # Demonstrate a bug in `tail -cN' when operating on files of size 4G and larger # Fixed in coreutils-4.5.2. # Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006 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 2 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, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301, USA. . $srcdir/../expensive if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then set -x tail --version fi pwd=`pwd` t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$ trap 'status=$?; cd "$pwd" && chmod -R u+rwx $t0 && rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0 trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15 framework_failure=0 mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1 cd $tmp || framework_failure=1 # Create a file of size exactly 4GB (2^32) with 8 bytes # at the beginning and another set of 8 bytes at the end. # The rest will be NUL bytes. On most modern systems, the following # creates a file that takes up only a few KB. Here, du -sh says 16K. echo abcdefgh | tr -d '\n' > big || framework_failure=1 echo 87654321 | tr -d '\n' > tmp || framework_failure=1 # Seek 4GB - 8 dd bs=1 seek=4294967288 if=tmp of=big 2> err || dd_failed=1 if test "$dd_failed" = 1; then cat err 1>&2 echo "$0: cannot create a file large enough for this test," 1>&2 echo "$0: possibly because this system doesn't support large files;" 1>&2 echo "$0: Consider rerunning this test on a different file system." 1>&2 (exit 77); exit 77 fi if test $framework_failure = 1; then echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2 (exit 1); exit 1 fi fail=0 tail -c1 big > out || fail=1 # Append a newline. echo >> out cat <<\EOF > exp 1 EOF cmp out exp || fail=1 test $fail = 1 && diff out exp 2> /dev/null (exit $fail); exit $fail