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Date: | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 08:51:14 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Dieter Buerssner <buers AT gmx DOT de> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Uptime and entropy in DOS |
In-Reply-To: | <88btpi$128uk$2@fu-berlin.de> |
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On 15 Feb 2000, Dieter Buerssner wrote: > [I am not sure, what you mean by seed generator] `random's `initstate' function uses this simple RNG to prime its initial vector of random values. > 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(). No, there's no misunderstanding: we were both talking about BSD `random' and its derivatives.
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