Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:46:42 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jason Smethers <jason@smethers.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD libc for Linux? Message-ID: <20010501104642.A27136@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <002c01c0d25d$10af76a0$08cc1f40@pdq.net>; from jason@smethers.net on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:37:51AM -0500 References: <20010430172143.A9910@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <p05001909b7143ae910ea@[192.168.168.205]> <002c01c0d25d$10af76a0$08cc1f40@pdq.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Jason Smethers wrote: > The statistical differences may be a result of your programs use of the > rand() family. Linux's GNU libc decided not to implement these functions for > backwards compatibility. Instead it aliases these functions to the random() > family. We don't use randomness anywhere in this code so that's not it. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE67vaBXY6L6fI4GtQRAmqXAJ4hOhg6oGLR3tXvFJJrND/znZby3QCWIiO6 mhCyvlZ3Zrui/26/5Qw2mg== =AiTM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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