2 # Test for assertion failure in "test".
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22 # This test fails with tail from textutils-2.0.
23 # It would get something like this:
24 # tail: tail.c:718: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed.
26 # due to a race condition in which a dev/inode pair is reused.
28 if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
33 # Not "expensive" per se, but sleeping for so long is annoying.
34 . $srcdir/../very-expensive
38 trap 'cd "$pwd" && rm -rf $tmp' 0 1 2 3 15
41 mkdir $tmp || test_failure=1
42 cd $tmp || test_failure=1
44 if test $test_failure = 1; then
45 echo 'failure in testing framework'
52 tail --follow=name a foo > err 2>&1 &
54 # Arrange for the tail process to die after 12 seconds.
55 (sleep 12; kill $tail_pid) &
57 echo sleeping for 7 seconds...
59 # Give the backgrounded `tail' a chance to start before removing foo.
60 # Otherwise, without --retry, tail wouldn't try to open `foo' again.
76 test $fail = 1 && cat err