From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 2 16:25:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 790A637B405; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [193.201.200.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9055943F75; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:25:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@chiark.greenend.org.uk) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 18fUQ1-0007Bt-00 (Debian); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 00:25:01 +0000 To: DougB@FreeBSD.org From: Tony Finch Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rand() is broken In-Reply-To: <20030202131437.V79739@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> References: <200302022006.PAA25355@valiant.cnchost.com> <200302022006.PAA25355@valiant.cnchost.com> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 00:25:01 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > >I can think of one significant benefit... I had noticed that my perl >script to pick random windowmaker themes (which uses rand()) seemed to be >picking the same themes over and over again. That's a bug in perl's compile-time configuration. It can be told to use something better. See PR 25794. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch http://dotat.at/ LANDS END TO ST DAVIDS HEAD INCLUDING THE BRISTOL CHANNEL: WEST 6 TO GALE 8. EASING WEST 5 OR 6 MONDAY MORNING. WEST OR NORTHWEST 6 OR 7 AGAIN LATER. RAIN OR SHOWERS, MAINLY FAIR PERHAPS MORE ISOLATED SHOWERS MONDAY. MAINLY GOOD. ROUGH OR VERY ROUGH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message