From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:47:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: tests: tests/tail/wait.sh: protect against hang
X-Git-Tag: v9.8~25
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a2a3deb33f6c6423cd97100becaa46df9cef30a;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tests: tests/tail/wait.sh: protect against hang

* tests/tail/wait.sh: This test was seen to hang occasionally
on an Alpine Linux 3.20 system, so protect the tail(1) call
with `timeout 60` as done in similar tests.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
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diff --git a/tests/tail/wait.sh b/tests/tail/wait.sh
index 7530ef40cc..87fe7540fc 100755
--- a/tests/tail/wait.sh
+++ b/tests/tail/wait.sh
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ if test "$HAVE_INOTIFY" && test -z "$mode" && is_local_dir_ .; then
     local delay="$1"
 
     > k && > tail.out && > tail.err || framework_failure_
-    tail $fastpoll -F $mode k >tail.out 2>tail.err & pid=$!
+    timeout 60 tail $fastpoll -F $mode k >tail.out 2>tail.err & pid=$!
     sleep $delay
     mv k l
     sleep $delay