Re: [PATCH 0/2] tests: fix issues in autopkgtest environment

On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 08:28 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:

Hi,
while working on Debian bug [1] and the Ubuntu counterpart of it
I found that the tests can throw a broken pipe warning.

I kept the associated check-and-retry of the length separate to
discuss the changes individually - feel free to squash them on
commit if preferred.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879854

Christian Ehrhardt (2):
  tests: read limited amount from /dev/urandom
  tests: make sure rand_dev suffix has 6 chars

 testsuite/lib/generic.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Stephen,

The subject of this series is missing the "iproute2" tag so it likely
fell off the back of the wagon, could you have a look please?

Archive link:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=151487814431958&w=2

Patchwork:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/854412/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/854410/

Thanks

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi