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Date:      Sat, 30 Mar 1996 05:59:05 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        imb@scgt.oz.au, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: random .. not so ..
Message-ID:  <199603300259.FAA00378@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199603291932.LAA02763@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at "Mar 29, 96 11:32:15 am"

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> >I plan to aply proposed fix, if nobody against.
> 
>    The proposed fix was a patch to the GPL'd libc...that means that it is
> covered by the GPL. I don't think you can use the patch directly without
> contaminating our non-GPL'd sources.

The proposed fix not applies directly in any case, I just plan to use
its math formula. Moreover, we have 3 places affected:
rand(), srandom(), random().

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me,  /Thinking me dead.
RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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