Control characters (such as backspace, used in progress reports by mkfs.ext4, for example) can make Python's XML parsers choke, claiming that it is an invalid XML document. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- common/report | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/common/report b/common/report index ffa23719..a62d343e 100644 --- a/common/report +++ b/common/report @@ -27,11 +27,12 @@ REPORT_ENV_LIST="$REPORT_ENV_LIST OVL_WORK" encode_xml() { - sed -e 's/&/\&/g' \ - -e 's/>/\>/g' \ - -e 's/</\</g' \ - -e "s/'/\'/g" \ - -e 's/"/\"/g' + cat -v | \ + sed -e 's/&/\&/g' \ + -e 's/>/\>/g' \ + -e 's/</\</g' \ + -e "s/'/\'/g" \ + -e 's/"/\"/g' } # -- 2.16.1.72.g5be1f00a9a -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fstests" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html