[Halld-offline] genr8 software request

[David Lawrence]

Hi Kei,

     I'll modify the program to allow the seed to be set explicitly via 
command line argument. I'll let you know when the modification is available.

Regards,
-David

On 12/2/10 4:45 PM, Kei Moriya wrote:
> Dear Offliners,
>
> I have been working on the Hall D simulation packages,
> and have encountered an issue with genr8, and was wondering
> if anybody could help me.
>
> The issue I encountered is that the seed used for the
> random generator in genr8 is the current time,
> so if the program is run consecutively within the same
> second, the generated result is exactly the same, and I end
> up with several copies of the same files.
>
> I think that the use of the current time should be avoided,
> not just because of the behavior above, but also because
> it becomes impossible to reproduce the same file at a later
> time if necessary.
>
> I think passing the seed in as another runtime parameter
> to genr8 would require only a few lines of extra code.
> Could somebody do this for me, or point me to how to update
> the program myself?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> 	Kei Moriya
> _______________________________________________
> Halld-offline mailing list
> Halld-offline at jlab.org
> https://mailman.jlab.org/mailman/listinfo/halld-offline