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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:59:08 +0100
From:      Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc>
To:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r187571 - projects/stress2/lib
Message-ID:  <20090122065908.GA96726@x2.osted.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20090121221258.GA52915@freebsd.org>
References:  <200901212124.n0LLOaFB091737@svn.freebsd.org> <20090121221258.GA52915@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:12:58PM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:24:36PM +0000, Peter Holm wrote:
> > Author: pho
> > Date: Wed Jan 21 21:24:36 2009
> > New Revision: 187571
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187571
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Attempt to ensure that setup() is called before any system load.
> >   
> >   Approved by:	kib
> > 
> > Modified:
> >   projects/stress2/lib/main.c
> > 
> > Modified: projects/stress2/lib/main.c
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- projects/stress2/lib/main.c	Wed Jan 21 21:01:02 2009	(r187570)
> > +++ projects/stress2/lib/main.c	Wed Jan 21 21:24:36 2009	(r187571)
> > @@ -106,10 +106,9 @@ run_tests(int i)
> >  	signal(SIGHUP, run_test_handler);
> >  	signal(SIGINT, exit_handler);
> >  	atexit(callcleanup);
> > -	arc4random_stir();
> > +	setup(i);
> >  	if ((strcmp(getprogname(), "run") != 0) && (op->nodelay == 0))
> >  		sleep(random_int(1,10));
> > -	setup(i);
> >  	start = time(NULL);
> >  	while (done_testing == 0 &&
> >  			(time(NULL) - start) < op->run_time) {
> 
> are you sure you want to get rid of the arc4random_stir() ?

No, but to quote the man page:

There is no need to call arc4random_stir() before using arc4random(),
since arc4random() automatically initializes itself.

Is that wrong?

- Peter



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