On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 20:05:29 +0000, David Malone wrote:
> > > I presume it also produces reasonably uniform output for most
> > > seeds too.
> 
> > Yes. Modulo the requirement to "burn" a bit of output after a
> > reseed.
> 
> I guess the crypto guys would have junked it otherwise ;-)

Notice that it will happens _each_ time for rand() due to rand_r() 
requirement 1) to output the same sequence as rand() and to 2) to store
one word seed value each time. I.e. it will be reseed on each call.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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