From 0a2a3deb33f6c6423cd97100becaa46df9cef30a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:47:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 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.
---
 tests/tail/wait.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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
-- 
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