Thanks for the start points, Christian and Philip. I would have never thought about those use cases. I'll definitely look into this further.
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > On 2017-04-19, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > For a broader answer to the "why?", take a look at the patches under > > /usr/ports/ which add uses of the *_deterministic() calls. > > For instance, take graphics/netpbm and look at its multitude of > image manipulation tools that take a -randomseed=integer argument > to ensure that the same result can be obtained on separate > invocations. >
