Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:39:25 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 193147] New: [patch] Change rand(3) to random(3) in awk(1) Message-ID: <bug-193147-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193147 Bug ID: 193147 Summary: [patch] Change rand(3) to random(3) in awk(1) Product: Base System Version: 10.0-STABLE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: Needs Triage Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: horus.li@gmail.com Created attachment 146536 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=146536&action=edit The patch. Change rand(3) to random(3) can result in better randomness. Other implementations such as OSX's awk & gawk already made this change. Discussion in freebsd-hackers received positive feedbacks, details can be found here[1]. [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-August/045917.html -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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