From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 27 11:43:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D66B37B71A; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:43:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA16408; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:40:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA.FaWXF; Tue Feb 27 12:39:49 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29005; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:42:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200102271942.MAA29005@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: rand(3) (was Re: cvs commit: ports/astro/xglobe/files patch-random) To: kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:42:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), n@nectar.com (Jacques A. Vidrine), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010226231515.B94159@citusc17.usc.edu> from "Kris Kennaway" at Feb 26, 2001 11:15:15 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Okay, now I'm annoyed. I just looked at glibc, and it already does > what is being discussed here, namely aliasing rand() to random() > (which appears to be the same algorithm we use for random()). There > goes your "pseudo-standardization" argument out the window, which > means you obviously hadn't checked your facts and were just describing > the state of your internal fantasy universe. Thanks for wasting > everyone's time with this silly thread. Check your history. Linux made the same mistake you are proposing to make. The advent of glibc is relatively recent. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message