_dump_err2() helper was introduced over two years ago and it broke the error reporting from _repair_scratch_fs. Every test that runs: _repair_scratch_fs >> $seqres.full and expect to fail if anything is written to stderr is not working as intended. Spotted-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- Eryu, This bug was found by zhangyi while working on fsck.overlay patches, but it affects all filesystems. I just re-found zhangyi's fix while going through some old notes. Amir. common/rc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc index 17b89d5d..e78e0920 100644 --- a/common/rc +++ b/common/rc @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ _dump_err_cont() _dump_err2() { _err_msg="$*" - >2& echo "$_err_msg" + >&2 echo "$_err_msg" } _log_err() -- 2.17.1