Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2 0/2] tests: fix issues in autopkgtest environment

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:11:35 +0100
Christian Ehrhardt [off-list ref] 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.

*Updates in v2*
tag with --subject-prefix='PATCH iproute2' to trigger the right
review queues in patchwork as requested by Luca Bocassi.

[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(-)

Looks good. Applied.
The method of generating a name seems a bit overly complex.
Maybe using something like pwgen would be easier.