Re: [PATCH] generic/556: Adequate expected output to touch behavior change

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 02:32:28PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 
> This would break the test on systems that still have an older version of
> coreutils, right?  For example, currently kvm-xfstests test appliances are based
> on Debian Bullseye by default, which isn't very old, but it has coreutils 8.32.

Even Debian unstable is still using coreutils 8.32:

   https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=coreutils&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

> Can you filter the output to allow the test to pass with both old and new
> coreutils versions?

Gabriel, FYI, the filter functions live in common/filter.  There are a
large number of them see "git log common/filter" to see how they get
added.  For a really simple example, please see commit 90d132ee44b7:

    common/filter: add _filter_bash()
    
    This is needed to account for bash 5.1 adding line number annotation
    when executing a command via the -c option and it fails.  For example,
    "bash -c 'echo foo > /'" will cause bash 5.1 to report:
    
         bash: line 1: /: Is a directory
    
    instead of:
    
         bash: /: Is a directory

Cheers,

						- Ted