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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:34:24 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib rand.3 rand.c
Message-ID:  <20010424233423.C9553@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20010424121555.D89819@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:15:55PM -0700
References:  <200104230229.f3N2TA082491@freefall.freebsd.org> <200104241743.NAA97478@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010424220826.A85409@nagual.pp.ru> <20010424121555.D89819@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:15:55 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Could you give an example where it's difficult to replace rand() with
> random() or arc4random()?  I've never encountered one.

Of course, I mean not impossible :-) Is is as difficult as replacing many
occurances in many files with examination of each of them, then keeping
all that diffs somewhere and applying them for new releases again.

This particular reason is minor and not important - other ones I mention
are more important.

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

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