{"id":1223,"date":"2008-10-08T17:01:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2008-10-08T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T07:01:43","slug":"getarg-calls-srand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/getarg-calls-srand\/","title":{"rendered":"getarg calls srand() ???"},"content":{"rendered":"

storage\/ndb\/test\/src\/getarg.c<\/p>\n

Guess what? It calls srand(time(NULL)) in getarg(). Why you ask? well.. what you want to be able to when specifying a flag is have it be true, false or it could “maybe” be set.<\/p>\n

That’s right kids… maybe.<\/p>\n

I’m sure it’s used somewhere in our test suite to get coverage on different things.. but umm.. yeah, interesting discovery for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

storage\/ndb\/test\/src\/getarg.c Guess what? It calls srand(time(NULL)) in getarg(). Why you ask? well.. what you want to be able to when specifying a flag is have it be true, false or it could “maybe” be set. That’s right kids… maybe. I’m … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-ndb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-jJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":813,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/02\/record-autotest-numbers-for-ndb\/","url_meta":{"origin":1223,"position":0},"title":"Record autotest numbers for NDB","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-04-02","format":false,"excerpt":"So, with a bunch of recent tests I added (and some bugs that have been fixed) we're now consistently getting 203 or 204 passing tests. 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