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From: Edward Brocklesby <ejb@lythe.org.uk>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: rand() is broken
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:42:06 +0000
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On Monday 03 February 2003 12:20 am, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Edward Brocklesby wrote:
> > Where was it indicated that random() wouldn't change?
>
> Right there in the boot message, and again when you logged in,
> where the system indicated to you that it was a BSD system;

Sorry, I can't quite work out what you mean by this.  Are you saying that it's 
assumed random()'s API won't changed because it's guaranteed by BSD?

Regards,
Edward.

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