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Patrick Steinhardt 26fc7b59cd t/helper: improve "genrandom" test helper
The `test-tool genrandom` test helper can be used to generate random
data, either as an infinite stream or with a specified number of bytes.
The way we handle parsing the number of bytes is lacking though:

  - We don't have good error handling, so if the caller for example uses
    `test-tool genrandom 200xyz` then we'll end up generating 200 bytes
    of random data successfully.

  - Many callers want to generate e.g. 1 kilobyte or megabyte of data,
    but they have to either use unwieldy numbers like 1048576, or they
    have to precompute them.

Fix both of these issues by using `git_parse_ulong()` to parse the
argument. This function has better error handling, and it knows to
handle unit suffixes.

Adapt a couple of our tests to use suffixes instead of manual
computations.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-23 13:19:00 -08:00

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/*
* Simple random data generator used to create reproducible test files.
* This is inspired from POSIX.1-2001 implementation example for rand().
* Copyright (C) 2007 by Nicolas Pitre, licensed under the GPL version 2.
*/
#include "test-tool.h"
#include "git-compat-util.h"
#include "parse.h"
int cmd__genrandom(int argc, const char **argv)
{
unsigned long count, next = 0;
unsigned char *c;
if (argc < 2 || argc > 3) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s <seed_string> [<size>]\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}
c = (unsigned char *) argv[1];
do {
next = next * 11 + *c;
} while (*c++);
count = ULONG_MAX;
if (argc == 3 && !git_parse_ulong(argv[2], &count))
return error_errno("cannot parse argument '%s'", argv[2]);
while (count--) {
next = next * 1103515245 + 12345;
if (putchar((next >> 16) & 0xff) == EOF)
return -1;
}
return 0;
}