Re: tail --retry not re-attempting to open file

[Pádraig Brady]

On 04/20/2013 03:47 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 04/18/2013 11:52 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 04/18/2013 06:10 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> You may want to consider using the existing retry_delay_()
>>> rather than wait4lines() in the tests, but otherwise it
>>> looks good to push.
>>
>> Thanks for the review.
>> I'll have a look at retry_delay_() again tomorrow, and see
>> if it makes waiting for tail's output easier.
> 
> Hi Padraig,
> 
> as there are different line counts expected in the 'out' file,
> I needed to change retry_delay_().  it can now be called with
> more than three arguments (test_func, init_delay, max_n_tries)
> in which case it passes such values on to test_func.
> 
> Unless there are objection, I'd push the attached tomorrow.

Looks great,

thanks,
Pádraig.