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| author | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 2005-05-10 01:55:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2007-10-10 13:16:34 -0500 |
| commit | 61d95606d06b7ee9541b2097c693afd042459f31 (patch) | |
| tree | de384a10c2c6904179c734283543dcf6e6a6bc24 /source4 | |
| parent | 00f4b34d95da1152f2cd12bd3bf38dc08f2af187 (diff) | |
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r6687: added a idr helper function for creating random IDs
(This used to be commit ef573df2a012e9a192487f207502ef1027c66d4b)
Diffstat (limited to 'source4')
| -rw-r--r-- | source4/lib/idtree.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source4/lib/idtree.c b/source4/lib/idtree.c index 82c1cdd42a..a67a80940a 100644 --- a/source4/lib/idtree.c +++ b/source4/lib/idtree.c @@ -345,6 +345,24 @@ int idr_get_new_above(struct idr_context *idp, void *ptr, int starting_id, int l } /* + allocate a new id randomly in the given range +*/ +int idr_get_new_random(struct idr_context *idp, void *ptr, int limit) +{ + int id; + + /* first try a random starting point in the whole range, and if that fails, + then start randomly in the bottom half of the range. This can only + fail if the range is over half full */ + id = idr_get_new_above(idp, ptr, 1+(generate_random() % limit), limit); + if (id == -1) { + id = idr_get_new_above(idp, ptr, 1+(generate_random()%(limit/2)), limit); + } + + return id; +} + +/* find a pointer value previously set with idr_get_new given an id */ void *idr_find(struct idr_context *idp, int id) |