Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:18:35 -0700 (PDT) From: <hoek@FreeBSD.org> To: andrew@ugh.net.au, hoek@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/6711: [PATCH ?] I've seen that fortune before Message-ID: <199906111918.MAA00907@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: [PATCH ?] I've seen that fortune before
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Using "fortune all" won't really cause a decrease in the number of fortunes
that you read twice. Examine the following,
b$ fortune -f
___% /usr/share/games/fortune
___% fortunes
___% fortunes2
b$ fortune -f all
___% /usr/share/games/fortune
___% fortunes
___% fortunes2
___% startrek
___% zippy
___% limerick
b$ ls -l fortunes fortunes2 startrek zippy limerick
-r--r--r-- 1 root games 582273 May 28 04:31 fortunes
-r--r--r-- 1 root games 2063664 May 28 04:31 fortunes2
-r--r--r-- 1 root games 144252 May 28 04:31 limerick
-r--r--r-- 1 root games 27502 May 28 04:31 startrek
-r--r--r-- 1 root games 38744 May 28 04:31 zippy
b$
The problem of repeated fortunes is/was most likely a result of poor randomness,
which was fixed in FreeBSD 3 by using /dev/random to get better
randomness.
[Besides, I like to keep my star-trek and zippy quotes for special days -
].
[Note that especially once limerick is moved to limeric-o, the additional
two fortune files make almost no difference to the total number of fortunes
available.].
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