[From address modified because I don't want every message in this thread to end up in my personal mailbox. I'll read them in the list, thank you very much.]
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:23:43PM +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > Bakul Shah writes: > > > Since you keep talking about random(), I must conclude you're > > > knee-jerking, since we're not discussing that function. Please stay > > > on-topic :-) > > > > Read through the thread. In particular see Mark's message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> where he > > says > > > > Good point. We can re-implement random() internally with arc4rand(). > > Quote it in context, please. > > That was random(9). KERNEL random(). > > However, the argument applies equally well to rand(3) and random(3). Please Mark, just leave rand(3) and random(3) alone -- other than to fix the single bug Kris reported at the start of this thread. Long-time Unix users expect them to work as they do now. The manpages state they are not cryptographically random. If someone wants a function of that type we have a good arc4random(3). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
