Re: [PATCH 1/6] maintenance: add get_random_minute()

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2023, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4jlabea3.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZNFgIyuhlNd8I9Y2@nand.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> I was wondering where else we call srand() within Git, and it looks like
> the only other spot is in `lock_file_timeout()`.

lock_file_timeout() should be updated to match git_mkstemps_mode(), which was taught to use the csprng_bytes() function with 47efda96 (wrapper: use a CSPRNG to generate random file names, 2022-01-17), and this new caller may want to do so as well, perhaps? I dunno, but the caller then does not have to worry about "initializing it just once".

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