From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 8 11:01:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA11201 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11189 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA14627; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:59:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:59:40 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9610081759.AA14627@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random()) In-Reply-To: <199610081742.KAA16537@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <3071.844755254@critter.tfs.com> <199610081742.KAA16537@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> Nobody needing serious random numbers uses rand(). > What about the multicast routing draft, which uses the function for > its hash, and therefore expects it to be implemented identically > across all platforms? It's broken and will be fixed in the next version of that document. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick