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Re: [PATCH] tail: flush initial output before possibly blocking
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [PATCH] tail: flush initial output before possibly blocking |
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Date: |
Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:56:30 +0200 |
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> Here's what I'm testing now:
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>> +for i in $(seq 10); do
>> + test -s out && break
>> + echo sleep .1s
>> sleep .1
>> done
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> Much better, thanks.
> BTW, can't we rely on coreutils `test` in tests?
I suppose so, but you'd have to be careful
to invoke it via "env test ..." to avoid
using the shell built-in one.