Message ID | 1322847972-26504-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com |
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State | Accepted |
Commit | 4e37713af46f289eac21ca24d2e7d50aed014237 |
Headers | show |
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 09:46 -0800, Brian Norris wrote: > If a seed is not provided via --seed, we use the default rand() values, > which produces the same sequence of values every run. Since this is > undesirable, we should choose a random seed via the current time(). > > Note that this patch moves the srand() until after all the initial > options processing. Pushed, thanks! Artem.
diff --git a/nandtest.c b/nandtest.c index b3aacaf..0187b87 100644 --- a/nandtest.c +++ b/nandtest.c @@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) uint32_t offset = 0; uint32_t length = -1; + seed = time(NULL); + for (;;) { static const char *short_options="hkl:mo:p:s:"; static const struct option long_options[] = { @@ -173,7 +175,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) case 's': seed = atol(optarg); - srand(seed); break; case 'p': @@ -244,6 +245,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) printf("Bad blocks : %d\n", oldstats.badblocks); printf("BBT blocks : %d\n", oldstats.bbtblocks); + srand(seed); + for (pass = 0; pass < nr_passes; pass++) { loff_t test_ofs;
If a seed is not provided via --seed, we use the default rand() values, which produces the same sequence of values every run. Since this is undesirable, we should choose a random seed via the current time(). Note that this patch moves the srand() until after all the initial options processing. Cc: Jan Weitzel <j.weitzel@phytec.de> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> --- rebased on top of Jan's patch nandtest.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)