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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:11:29 -0800
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>,
	Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>,
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Subject: Re: rand() is broken
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:02:27PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote:
> * De: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> [ Data: 2003-02-02 ]
> 	[ Subjecte: Re: rand() is broken ]
> > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:37:25PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > >  FreeBSD       Redhat       SunOS 
> > > 660787754    660787754    645318364
> > 
> > FWIW - AIX aggrees with Solaris.
> 
> Endiannes, or an SVR4 implementation difference?

The FreeBSD and SunOS man pages are very similar.
The FreeBSD man page provides much more detail.
Endianness may account for the difference.

My OSF/1 box burned its keyboard controller up,
so I can't check its random().

-- 
Steve

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