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Subject: Re: stress2 is now in projects
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Peter Holm <pho@freebsd.org> writes:
> The key functionality of this test suite is that it runs a random
> number of test programs for a random period, in random incarnations
> and in random sequence.

In other words, it's non-deterministic and non-reproducable.

You should at the very least allow the user to specify the random seed.

DES
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