On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 01:31:59AM -0300, Silas Silva wrote: > Hi! > > Using zsh's $RANDOM I discovered that it always generated one odd > number, and then, an even number. It just feeds srand() with the last > generated number from rand().
It should not repeatadly call srand(), only once at startup time. > I was thinking about file a PR, but decided to ask you first if you want > to keep this algorithm. Should I report a bug to tell zsh guys and > other applications to use random(3) instead? For all practical purposes you should read a byte from /dev/urandom instead. Martin
