Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:57:29 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib rand.c Message-ID: <20030217045729.GA68471@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200302170352.h1H3qawJ062671@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200302170352.h1H3qawJ062671@repoman.freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 07:52:35PM -0800, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > So, monotonically increased seed->first value correlation problem remains... I think we should commit this patch (to -current) and fix all the problems that pop up. For example, it's used in awk (which started this set of changes), and in some of the XFree86 libraries. Kris Index: stdlib/rand.c =================================================================== RCS file: /mnt2/ncvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.c,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 rand.c --- stdlib/rand.c 5 Feb 2003 21:25:50 -0000 1.14 +++ stdlib/rand.c 8 Feb 2003 06:07:55 -0000 @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ #endif /* !USE_WEAK_SEEDING */ } +__warn_references(rand_r, + "warning: rand_r() does not produce high-quality random numbers and should not generally be used"); int rand_r(unsigned int *ctx) @@ -99,6 +101,9 @@ static u_long next = 892053144; /* after srand(1), NSHUFF counted */ + +__warn_references(rand, + "warning: rand() does not produce high-quality random numbers and should not generally be used"); int rand() [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+UGu5Wry0BWjoQKURAuzwAJ9HyozHRVACvalkdZOqN5YvxQj4MACfbuAw kE0FDM79gU9SRFG6GnE6p4c= =Oqhm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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