From: Alain Spineux <alain@baculasystems.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:30:57 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: regress: combine inotifywait and timeout to detect delete event
X-Git-Tag: Beta-15.0.0~672
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54d09c96b8fa59d57989489a46f86bebe9346dd0;p=thirdparty%2Fbacula.git

regress: combine inotifywait and timeout to detect delete event

- it looks like inotify could miss some event
---

diff --git a/regress/scripts/blab.py b/regress/scripts/blab.py
index cca5e300d..a7426b470 100755
--- a/regress/scripts/blab.py
+++ b/regress/scripts/blab.py
@@ -661,7 +661,11 @@ class Lab:
         f.write("""\
 # The plugin unlink the file just after open()
 # echo "$$ `date` $@" >> /tmp/log
-while [ -f {tmp}/dedupstreams.conf ] ; do sleep 1; done
+
+# if inotifywait is installed then use it to "instantly" detect that the file
+# as been deleted from the direcory (aka "consumed") else wait 1s
+wait_cmd="`which inotifywait` -t 5 -e delete {tmp}" || wait_cmd="sleep 1"
+while [ -f {tmp}/dedupstreams.conf ] ; do $wait_cmd; done
 for var in "$@" ; do
    if [ "${{var}}" = "next" ] ; then
       var=0