> On September 16, 2013 at 2:20 PM Ondrej Oprala <[email protected]> wrote: > thank you both for looking at the patch.
No worries. Just for the record: the new test was racy: > +echo 1 > file > +ln -sf file filelink > + > +#watch a symlink > +tail -F ./filelink > out 2>/dev/null & > + > +rm file > +echo 2 > file > +kill %1 > + > +#does tail output the contents of a reappearing file? > +[ $(wc -l < out) = 2 ] || fail=1 It is not guaranteed that the rm(1) comes after tail(1) had a chance to see line "1". See tests/tail-2/retry.sh. Have a nice day, Berny
