From 30a227673eb4b095563c0ff75c6d89a7cae5096a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:28:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: tail-2/pid: use a 3-second timeout, not 1 * tests/tail-2/pid: When using the timeout program to ensuring that tail -s.1 --pid=$PID_T_MAX does not wait forever, use a timeout longer than 1 second. A 1-second timeout could be too short on a very busy system, and result in a timeout, and hence false-positive failure. 2009-09-30 Jim Meyering --- tests/tail-2/pid | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/tail-2/pid b/tests/tail-2/pid index aaf2e01ba8..90f1684304 100755 --- a/tests/tail-2/pid +++ b/tests/tail-2/pid @@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ for inotify in ---disable-inotify ''; do # Ensure that tail --pid=PID exits successfully when PID is dead. # Use an unlikely-to-be-live PID - timeout 1 tail -s.1 --pid=$PID_T_MAX -f $inotify /dev/null + timeout 3 tail -s.1 --pid=$PID_T_MAX -f $inotify /dev/null ret=$? test $ret = 124 && skip_test_ "pid $PID_T_MAX present" test $ret = 0 || fail=1 # Ensure fractional sleep parameter is honored with --pid - timeout 1 tail -s.1 -f $inotify /dev/null --pid=$PID_T_MAX + timeout 3 tail -s.1 -f $inotify /dev/null --pid=$PID_T_MAX test $? = 124 && fail=1 done -- 2.47.3