Hi, On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 11:50:12AM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > The testsuite relies on there being no files in the test directory > after the test finishes. A test will fail if the test dir cannot be > removed. But the test dir isn't really random, it uses the pid of the > shell script that executes the test. On some of the buildbots that > execute a lot of tests it can happen that the pid number wraps around > and a pid of a previous pid is reused. To prevent that happening > generate a real random number (8 bytes) using od /dev/urandom and > xargs (to trim away spaces left by od). > > * tests/test-subr.sh: Define test_name and random_number and use > those to define test_dir.
There were some discussions on irc one variants on this idea using e.g. date +%s. But it didn't seem people objected to using od /dev/urandom. So I pushed this variant since that is what I have been testing. Cheers, Mark
