Sailesh Mukil has posted comments on this change.

Change subject: IMPALA-5031: unsafe random number generation in buffer-pool-test
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Patch Set 1:

(1 comment)

http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/7596/1/be/src/testutil/rand-util.h
File be/src/testutil/rand-util.h:

PS1, Line 34:   static void SeedRng(const char* env_var, std::mt19937* rng) {
            :     const char* seed_str = getenv(env_var);
            :     int64_t seed;
            :     if (seed_str != nullptr) {
            :       seed = atoi(seed_str);
            :     } else {
            :       seed = time(nullptr);
            :     }
            :     LOG(INFO) << "Random seed (overridable with " << env_var << 
"): " << seed;
            :     rng->seed(seed);
            :   }
Why not change this to use std::random_device instead?

See 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-impala/blob/master/be/src/rpc/authentication.cc#L493-L494


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