ci: do not use 'tail' for skip-file-rwx-check test

Newer versions of 'tail' rely on inotify and after a restore 'tail' is unhappy with the state of inotify and just stops. This replaces 'tail' with a minimal shell based test (thanks Andrei). Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <[email protected]>
checkpoint-restore · Dec 1, 2023 · 7c01f23 · 7c01f23
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commit 7c01f23
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 6 deletions.
diff --git a/test/others/skip-file-rwx-check/run.sh b/test/others/skip-file-rwx-check/run.sh
@@ -10,19 +10,19 @@ source ../env.sh
 make clean
 touch testfile
 chmod +w testfile
-tail --follow testfile &
-tailpid=$!
-if ! "$criu" dump --tree=$tailpid --shell-job --verbosity=4 --log-file=dump.log
+bash -c 'exec 3<testfile; while :; do sleep 1; done' &
+testpid=$!
+if ! "$criu" dump --tree=$testpid --shell-job --verbosity=4 --log-file=dump.log
 then
-    kill $tailpid
+    kill $testpid
     echo "Failed to dump process as expected"
     echo FAIL
     exit 1
 fi
 chmod -w testfile
 if "$criu" restore --restore-detached --shell-job --verbosity=4 --log-file=restore-expected-fail.log
 then
-    kill $tailpid
+    kill $testpid
     echo "Unexpectedly restored process with reference to a file who's r/w/x perms changed when --skip-file-rwx-check option was not used"
     echo FAIL
     exit 1
@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ then
     echo FAIL
     exit 1
 fi
-kill $tailpid
+kill $testpid
 echo PASS