David Cole wrote:
> Sounds to me like the perfect thing to just ignore till the dust settles.

Yes, this will probably take a while until this shows up in a release version 
of OpenBSD. But if this is not reverted then it will probably be a good idea 
to have check for this in 3.2 ready so it will just work in the next release 
of OpenBSD.

> And then, after that, if there's no srand/rand on OpenBSD....... Well...
> There will be, won't there?

There will be srand()/rand() on OpenBSD. It's just that srand() will be 
ignored and rand() will return really random numbers if there has not been a 
call to srand_deterministic() before, which will make rand() return the same 
numbers as on other platforms.

The idea behind this API in OpenBSD is: if you are looking for the pseudo 
numbers you need to call srand_deterministic(), i.e. you must explicitely 
state that you want the not really random random numbers. Everyone else will 
get real random.

Eike
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