From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 29 19:04:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA08235 for current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 19:04:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA08230 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 19:04:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA05024 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Sat, 30 Mar 1996 06:02:35 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sat, 30 Mar 96 06:02:35 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA00378; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 05:59:05 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <199603300259.FAA00378@astral.msk.su> Subject: Re: random .. not so .. To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 05:59:05 +0300 (MSK) Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603291932.LAA02763@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at "Mar 29, 96 11:32:15 am" From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL14 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >I plan to aply proposed fix, if nobody against. > > The proposed fix was a patch to the GPL'd libc...that means that it is > covered by the GPL. I don't think you can use the patch directly without > contaminating our non-GPL'd sources. The proposed fix not applies directly in any case, I just plan to use its math formula. Moreover, we have 3 places affected: rand(), srandom(), random(). -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849