Re: [PATCH] xfstests: kill lib/random.c

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:20:12PM +0000, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 16:17 -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > On 01/07/2014 03:40 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:10:15PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > >> On 1/7/14, 2:01 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
> > >>> Hey Gents,
> > >>>
> > >>> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:46:58PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > >>>> On 1/6/14, 3:42 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > >>>>> On 01/06/2014 04:32 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > >>>>>> On 1/6/14, 1:58 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > >>>>>>> I was trying to reproduce something with fsx and I noticed that no 
> > >>>>>>> matter what
> > >>>>>>> seed I set I was getting the same file.  Come to find out we are 
> > >>>>>>> overloading
> > >>>>>>> random() with our own custom horribleness for some unknown reason.  
> > >>>>>>> So nuke the
> > >>>>>>> damn thing from orbit and rely on glibc's random().  With this fix 
> > >>>>>>> the -S option
> > >>>>>>> actually does something with fsx.  Thanks,
....
> For now we can just use srandom?

Seems to me like it will solve the problem. Josef?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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