From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 5 13:24:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA06157 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05860 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA26543 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 22:20:59 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA26440 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 22:20:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA01766 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 21:54:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610051954.VAA01766@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random()) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 21:54:55 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610051847.UAA23755@grumble.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Oct 5, 96 08:47:50 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Murray wrote: > Why don't you use the RNG engine from /dev/random in random_machdep.c? Well, the trick with the library is that it shouldn't be _too_ random at all. ;-) It is supposed to generate the same sequence over and over again when used with the same seed, so you can test your software. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)