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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: RAND_MAX issue?
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On Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:59:53 am Jason Helfman wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am working on trying to resolve a build issue with devel/libvirt, and
> posted to the libvirt mailing list, and received this feedback. Please read
> this thread, and if you have any thoughts I would be interested in any
> resolution.
> 
> Here is a link to the thread:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-August/msg01544.html
> 
> Thanks!

It mostly seems to not matter reading the followups.  You would need to
ask Bruce what he thinks about the assumption of RAND_MAX being 2^n-1
for some n.

-- 
John Baldwin