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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:33:28 -0600
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs mkfs.c src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_alloc.c ffs_vfsops.c
Message-ID:  <20030214153328.A78405@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200302142131.h1ELVwvm057944@repoman.freebsd.org>; from mckusick@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:31:58PM -0800
References:  <200302142131.h1ELVwvm057944@repoman.freebsd.org>

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* De: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org> [ Data: 2003-02-14 ]
	[ Subjecte: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs mkfs.c src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_alloc.c ffs_vfsops.c ]
> mckusick    2003/02/14 13:31:58 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/newfs           mkfs.c 
>     sys/ufs/ffs          ffs_alloc.c ffs_vfsops.c 
>   Log:
>   Replace use of random() with arc4random() to provide less guessable
>   values for the initial inode generation numbers in newfs and for
>   newly allocated inode generation numbers in the kernel.

Are the sequences for it also repeatable in the newfs case for e.g. the
regression tests, where it is used unseeded?

Thanx,
juli.
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