From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 10:14:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: tests: avoid false failure due to small timeout
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tests: avoid false failure due to small timeout

* tests/tail/tail-c.sh: Tests that fail after a timeout
should use as least 10s to avoid intermittent failures
on slow/loaded hosts.
---

diff --git a/tests/tail/tail-c.sh b/tests/tail/tail-c.sh
index 23519918bb..9672b9fb62 100755
--- a/tests/tail/tail-c.sh
+++ b/tests/tail/tail-c.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ compare exp out || fail=1
 # Any part of /dev/urandom, if it exists, should be valid for tail -c.
 if test -r /dev/urandom; then
   # Or at least it should not read it forever
-  timeout --verbose 1 tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom >/dev/null 2>err
+  timeout --verbose 10 tail -c 4096 /dev/urandom >/dev/null 2>err
   case $? in
       0) ;;
       # Solaris 11 allows negative seek but then gives EINVAL on read