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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:10:28 +0100
From: Peter Holm <pho@freebsd.org>
To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:11:25PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, by design.

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

Yes, it would be interesting to see if this is enough to reproduce a
problem in a deterministic way. I'll look into this.

> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

-- 
Peter Holm