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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl produces non-deterministic results
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:01:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f3e350d0fcef89e25350f7d68ea96f33dc4e3f0.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+YcCW=xwys6tvhOLXiND=2Cwe-NFkn0MDKHi=8HdGWppg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 14:47 +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> non-deterministically gives me from 13 to 16 results, different number
> every time (on upstream 6794862a). Perl v5.28.1. Michael confirmed
> this with v5.28.2.
> Vergard suggested to check PERL_HASH_SEED=0. Indeed it fixes
> non-determinism. But I guess it's not the right solution, there should
> be some logical problem.
> My perl-fo is weak, I appreciate if somebody with proper perl-fo takes a look.
> 
> Thanks

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/13/789



  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-11  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-10 13:47 Dmitry Vyukov
2019-12-11  0:01 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2019-12-11  6:41   ` Vegard Nossum
2019-12-12  0:12     ` Joe Perches

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