[LTP] Broken Fedora build

[Xiao Yang]

On 2020/10/22 10:44, Yang Xu wrote:
> Hi Li,Petr
>> Petr Vorel<pvorel@suse.cz>  wrote:
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>>> Fedora build is broken due missing<sys/timeb.h>  [1].
>>> Quick fix would probably be to use Fedora 33 instead of Rawhide. [2]
>>> But we should port hugetlb.c and trace_sched.c (if used) to 
>>> gettimeofday or
>>> clock_gettime. [3]
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>> +1
>> I prefer to go replace ftime() by gettimeofday() or clock_gettime()
>> way to solve this from root.
> +1
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> I have seen the hugetlb.c and trace_sched.c code, they all use the 
> time to generate a random value for ftok or sched_priority. So using 
> gettimeofday() also looks ok.
Hi,

It is fine for me to replace ftime(), but I wonder if we can remove 
fime() and srand()/srandom() directly? :-)
It seems unnecessary to set the seed for random number.

Best Regards,
Xiao Yang
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> I will send a patch to use gettimeofday.
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> Best Regards
> Yang Xu
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