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To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix pam_unix.c 
References: <20020205184059.GA6785@nagual.pp.ru> 
In-Reply-To: <20020205184059.GA6785@nagual.pp.ru> ; from "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>  "Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:40:59 +0300."
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:49:38 +0000
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 15:20:44 +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > 
> > 1) You break applications which expect the same sequence from random()  
> > (when initializing srandom() to some fixed value) since insert random()  
> > calls in the middle of application ones.
> 
> In case my description is unclear, here is example:
> 
> App:
> srandom(33);
> random();
> random();
> call PAM library
> 	PAM calls random();
> 	PAM calls random()
> 	return;

/* application starts, control is handed over to the user */
  srandom(33);
  random(); /* sequence is OK. */

M
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