From: Josh Wu Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:21:04 +0000 (+0800) Subject: tools: gen_eth_addr: add getpid() to time(0) to avoid duplicated seed X-Git-Tag: v2015.10-rc4~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3e4dad50320d20894710276eb09f2057c6985065;p=u-boot tools: gen_eth_addr: add getpid() to time(0) to avoid duplicated seed As 'time(0) | getpid()' will have a lot of duplicated value. It is not a expected behavior. We expect different value for the seed when when run it in many times. So this patch will left shift the getpid() and add to time(0). That avoid duplicated value. Test command is like: % RUN=0; while [ $RUN -lt 10000 ]; do tools/gen_eth_addr; RUN=$(($RUN+1)); done | sort | uniq | wc -l 10000 This patch is incorporated with suggestions made by Wolfgang Denk and Andreas Bießmann. Thanks them a lot. Signed-off-by: Josh Wu Acked-by: Andreas Bießmann Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk Tested-by: Wolfgang Denk --- diff --git a/tools/gen_eth_addr.c b/tools/gen_eth_addr.c index bf9d935efd..5fa3e0cf56 100644 --- a/tools/gen_eth_addr.c +++ b/tools/gen_eth_addr.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) { unsigned long ethaddr_low, ethaddr_high; - srand(time(0) | getpid()); + srand(time(0) + (getpid() << 8)); /* * setting the 2nd LSB in the most significant byte of