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Authored by asomers on Apr 26 2019, 8:05 PM.
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fsx: seed more randomly with the -S0 option

When using -S0, seed the PRNG with the current time in nanoseconds, not
seconds, so consecutive runs don't accidentally use the same seed.

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This change is very reasonable.

FWIW, I wish there was a standard upstream source for fsx. A number of different OSes have their own version of fsx with their own set of bugs.

tools/regression/fsx/fsx.c
278–280 ↗(On Diff #56727)

Thought: I think this could be better done in terms of actual intermediate variables, instead of a comment, for clarity.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 28 2019, 5:09 PM

Respond to ngie's suggestions

This revision now requires review to proceed.Apr 28 2019, 5:14 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 28 2019, 5:24 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.