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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:08:41 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken)
Message-ID:  <20030203110841.GA77187@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200302031055.h13AtgaX058602@grimreaper.grondar.org>
References:  <20030202222635.GA68806@nagual.pp.ru> <200302031055.h13AtgaX058602@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:55:42 +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> How do you _know_ that your newly chosen magic number isn't going to cause
> some kind of recurring (and too-short) sequence of numbers?

I run simple test for it, it is not too short.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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