From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 11:31:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA16250 for current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA16219; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA06015; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:29:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:29:49 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9610071829.AA06015@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random()) In-Reply-To: <199610071810.LAA14432@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199610071720.VAA01227@nagual.ru> <199610071810.LAA14432@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> Well, it sounds like "golden code" syndrome.... > It *is* "golden code syndrome". > That doesn't make it any less of a valid argument. I would say it's more like Terry bitching like he usually does about somebody making a piece of code act like it's supposed to on the grounds that someone, somewhere actually depends on the bugs in it. I for one am quite sick of your whining. Around here we call that attitude ``UNIX Hacker bug #78''. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick