Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:16:28 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/jot jot.1 jot.c Message-ID: <20061106091628.45ff91d1.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200611061355.kA6DtC4M011713@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200611061355.kA6DtC4M011713@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Diomidis Spinellis <dds@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > dds 2006-11-06 13:55:11 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > usr.bin/jot jot.1 jot.c > Log: > Do What I Mean when the user asks for random integers or characters. > Up to now jot would fail to generate the last character in the range > or skew the integer distribution in a way that would generate the numbers > in the range's limits with half the probability of the rest. > > This modification fixes the program, rather than documenting the > strange behavior, as suggested in docs/54879. > > Also, correctly specify the range of random(3). Thanks! -- Tom Rhodes
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