/* * Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Jordan Bancino <@jordan:bancino.net> * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person * obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files * (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, * including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, * publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, * and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, * subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be * included in all copies or portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS * BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN * ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE * SOFTWARE. */ #include #include #include #include #include /* Generate random numbers using rejection sampling. The basic idea is * to "reroll" if a number happens to be outside the range. However * this could be extremely inefficient. * * Another idea would just be to "reroll" if the generated number ends up * in the previously "biased" range, and THEN do a modulo. * * This would be far more efficient for small values of max, and fixes the * bias issue. */ /* This algorithm therefore computes N random numbers generally in O(N) * time, while being less biased. */ void RandIntN(int *buf, size_t size, unsigned int max) { static pthread_mutex_t seedLock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER; static unsigned int seed = 0; int tmp; /* Limit the range to banish all previously biased results */ const int allowed = RAND_MAX - RAND_MAX % max; size_t i; pthread_mutex_lock(&seedLock); if (!seed) { /* Generate a seed from the system time, PID, and TID */ seed = UtilServerTs() ^ getpid() ^ (unsigned long) pthread_self(); } /* Generate {size} random numbers. */ for (i = 0; i < size; i++) { /* Most of the time, this will take about 1 loop */ do { tmp = rand_r(&seed); } while (tmp >= allowed); /* Since a generated number here is never in the biased range, * we can now safely use modulo. */ buf[i] = tmp % max; } pthread_mutex_unlock(&seedLock); } /* Generate just 1 random number */ int RandInt(unsigned int max) { int val = 0; RandIntN(&val, 1, max); return val; }