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khenaidoo7d3c5582021-08-11 18:09:44 -04001// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
2// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
3// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
4
5// Package detrand provides deterministically random functionality.
6//
7// The pseudo-randomness of these functions is seeded by the program binary
8// itself and guarantees that the output does not change within a program,
9// while ensuring that the output is unstable across different builds.
10package detrand
11
12import (
13 "encoding/binary"
14 "hash/fnv"
15 "os"
16)
17
18// Disable disables detrand such that all functions returns the zero value.
19// This function is not concurrent-safe and must be called during program init.
20func Disable() {
21 randSeed = 0
22}
23
24// Bool returns a deterministically random boolean.
25func Bool() bool {
26 return randSeed%2 == 1
27}
28
29// Intn returns a deterministically random integer between 0 and n-1, inclusive.
30func Intn(n int) int {
31 if n <= 0 {
32 panic("must be positive")
33 }
34 return int(randSeed % uint64(n))
35}
36
37// randSeed is a best-effort at an approximate hash of the Go binary.
38var randSeed = binaryHash()
39
40func binaryHash() uint64 {
41 // Open the Go binary.
42 s, err := os.Executable()
43 if err != nil {
44 return 0
45 }
46 f, err := os.Open(s)
47 if err != nil {
48 return 0
49 }
50 defer f.Close()
51
52 // Hash the size and several samples of the Go binary.
53 const numSamples = 8
54 var buf [64]byte
55 h := fnv.New64()
56 fi, err := f.Stat()
57 if err != nil {
58 return 0
59 }
60 binary.LittleEndian.PutUint64(buf[:8], uint64(fi.Size()))
61 h.Write(buf[:8])
62 for i := int64(0); i < numSamples; i++ {
63 if _, err := f.ReadAt(buf[:], i*fi.Size()/numSamples); err != nil {
64 return 0
65 }
66 h.Write(buf[:])
67 }
68 return h.Sum64()
69}