From:	buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Uptime and entropy in DOS
Date:	15 Feb 2000 16:10:29 GMT
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REPLYTOd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM (Damian Yerrick) wrote in 
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>On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:53:49 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
><eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>>But I don't see the above calculation anywhere in the sources of
>>`random.c', at least as it appears in DJGPP v2.03.
>
>I saw it in the FreeBSD sources.  It replaces
>  x = (x * 1103515245) + 12345;
>in the seed generator.

[I am not sure, what you mean by seed generator]

There may be a misunderstanding here. If I am not mistaken,
your code is the classic (bad) implementation of rand()
in BSD unices, while Eli is referring to BSD random().

Regards,
Dieter

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