Coreutils 5.2.1: race in testsuite

[Andreas Schwab]

This fixes a race in the tail-2/assert test: the file foo may be removed
before the tail process had the chance to open it.

Andreas.

2004-03-22  Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden>

        * tests/tail-2/assert: Avoid race between tail and rm.

--- tests/tail-2/assert
+++ tests/tail-2/assert
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 tail_pid=$!
 # Arrange for the tail process to die after 12 seconds.
 (sleep 12; kill $tail_pid) &
+# Wait for tail to start
+sleep 1
 rm -f foo
 echo sleeping for 7 seconds...
 sleep 7

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