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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ildar Muslukhov <ildarm@google.com>
Cc: trinity@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reproducible run and binary logs (ideas)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:07:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130919150746.GA2416@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEGbLtsg8_xLx9YvdrZ-gLWR4UqSQ+DT4mzEV9BfGnf-uHxDjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:48:40PM -0700, Ildar Muslukhov wrote:
 
 > Although, the way it is implemented right now is a bit risky, since
 > the rand functions are called in place, and we cannot guarantee that
 > no other code (like gcc libraries) hasn't made a call to rand()
 > function, thus moving the rand queue forward.

This whole idea seems to hang on this statement, and it bothers me.

Can this even happen ? I'm not sure it can.
And even if it can, surely it's going to happen again when we re-run
with the same seed, so we don't need to compensate for it.

Before going too far down this rabbit hole, I want to be sure we're not
over-engineering for a problem that actually isn't.

	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-19 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-18 19:48 Reproducible run and binary logs (ideas) Ildar Muslukhov
2013-09-19 15:07 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-09-19 16:03   ` Ildar Muslukhov
2013-09-19 16:21     ` Dave Jones
2013-09-19 16:49       ` Vince Weaver
2013-09-19 17:04         ` Ildar Muslukhov
2013-09-19 17:15           ` Ildar Muslukhov

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