(root)/
coreutils-9.4/
tests/
wc/
wc-parallel.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Ensure that wc prints counts atomically
# so that concurrent processes don't intersperse their output

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. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
print_ver_ wc

xargs -P2 </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || skip_ 'xargs -P is required'

(mkdir tmp && cd tmp && seq 2000 | xargs touch)

# This will output at least 16KiB per process
# and start 3 processes, with 2 running concurrently,
# which triggers often on Fedora 11 at least.
(find tmp tmp tmp -type f | xargs -n2000 -P2 wc 2>err) |
sed -n '/0 0 0 /!p' |
grep . > /dev/null && fail=1
compare /dev/null err || fail=1

Exit $fail