Re: [PATCH] common: Fixes for testing NFS over IPv6

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On 10/29/2014 07:33 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:32:07PM -0400, Anna Schumaker wrote:
>> When testing NFS over IPv6, the user will set a $TEST_DEV of the form
>> [fe80::42]:/export.  The use of square brackets surrounding the IPv6
>> address is an accepted convention, but grep and awk think that our IPv6
>> address is actually a regex and tries to evaluate it instead.  The
>> result is that xfstests reports our filesystem "is busy or already
>> mounted".
>>
>> This patch fixes the IPv6 problem by telling awk and grep to treat
>> $TEST_DEV as a fixed string rather than a regex.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Seems sensible, but it needs comments so that when someone copies
> the code they know why it's using these sorts of matches.

Sure.  I'll add that in, thanks!

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 

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