tests: Handle $RANDOM not being supported by the shell
In various places in our test makefiles and scripts we use the
shell $RANDOM to create a random number. This is a bash
specific extension, and doesn't work on other shells.
With dash the shell doesn't complain, it just effectively
always evaluates $RANDOM to 0:
echo $((RANDOM + 32768)) => 32768
However, on NetBSD the shell will complain:
"-sh: arith: syntax error: "RANDOM + 32768"
which means that "make check" fails.
Switch to using "${RANDOM:-0}" instead of $RANDOM,
which will portably either give us a random number or zero.
This means that on non-bash shells we don't get such
good test coverage via the MALLOC_PERTURB_ setting, but
we were already in that situation for non-bash shells.
Our only other uses of $RANDOM (in tests/qemu-iotests/check
and tests/qemu-iotests/162) are in shell scripts which use
a #!/bin/bash line so they are always run under bash.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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