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Re: randomid(3)
From: Noriyuki Soda (soda
sra.co.jp)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 08:54:06 CDT
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>>>>> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:47:50 +0700, Robert Elz <kremunnari.OZ.AU> said:
> I do see the ISC code using rand() to generate random numbers - there's
> no problem with that for this purpose (I didn't look hard enough to
No, there is a problem.
It's bad thing that libc functions use rand() (or random())
internally, because 3rd party applications (especially scientific
simulation software) want that their call to rand() returns same
random sequence.
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soda
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