From d9ba88597409c6c3f89c2ab173369cc1ec26507d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:44:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tests: tail-without-inotify: avoid spurious test failure * tests/tail-2/wait: Account for the possibility that the kernel lacks inotify support. Reported by Chris Clayton. --- THANKS | 1 + tests/tail-2/wait | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 3b03587d65..acdfd6b2f5 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ Carlos Canau Carlos.Canau@relay.puug.pt Charles Karney karney@pppl.gov Charles Randall crandall@matchlogic.com Chip Salzenberg chip@valinux.com +Chris Clayton chris2553@googlemail.com Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com Chris J. Bednar cjb@AdvancedDataSolutions.com Chris Lesniewski ctl@mit.edu diff --git a/tests/tail-2/wait b/tests/tail-2/wait index 9392ade233..bdc115ae99 100755 --- a/tests/tail-2/wait +++ b/tests/tail-2/wait @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ for inotify in ---disable-inotify ''; do timeout 1 tail -s0.1 -F $inotify not_here test $? = 124 || fail=1 - + grep -v 'tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling:' tail.err > x + mv x tail.err test -s tail.err && fail=1 :>tail.err -- 2.47.3