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# Test whether sort avoids opening more file descriptors than it is
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# allowed when merging files.
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# Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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. "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src
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mkdir in err || framework_failure_
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# When these tests are run inside the automated testing framework, they
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# have one less available file descriptor than when run outside the
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# automated testing framework. If a test with a batch size of b fails
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# inside the ATF, then the same test with batch size b+1 may pass outside
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# the ATF but fail inside it.
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# The default batch size (nmerge) is 16.
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&& sort -m --batch-size=16 in/* 2>err/merge-default-err \
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|| ! grep "open failed" err/merge-default-err) || fail=1
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# If sort opens a file to sort by random hashes of keys,
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# it needs to consider this file against its limit on open file
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# descriptors. Test once with the default random source
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# and once with an explicit source.
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for randsource in '' --random-source=some-data; do
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&& sort -mR $randsource --batch-size=16 in/* 2>err/merge-random-err \
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|| ! grep "open failed" err/merge-random-err) || fail=1
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# 'sort -m' should work in a limited file descriptor
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# environment when the output is repeatedly one of its inputs.
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# In coreutils 8.7 and earlier, 'sort' would dump core on this test.
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# This test uses 'exec' to redirect file descriptors rather than
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# ordinary redirection on the 'sort' command. This is intended to
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# work around bugs in OpenBSD /bin/sh, and some other sh variants,
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# that squirrel away file descriptors before closing them; see
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# <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00075.html>.
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# This test finds the bug only with shells that do not close FDs on
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# exec, and will miss the bug (if present) on other shells, but it's
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# not easy to fix this without running afoul of the OpenBSD-like sh bugs.
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(seq 6 && echo 6) >exp || fail=1
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(exec 3<&- 4<&- 5<&- 6</dev/null 7<&6 8<&6 9<&6 &&
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sort -n -m --batch-size=7 -o out out in/1 in/2 in/3 in/4 in/5 out
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