Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:06:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: src/libc/ansi/stdlib/rand.c
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> I agree that any
> reasonable person would explicitly seed the RNG to get deterministic
> results, but since when are standard writers reasonable? :-\

That depends on your definition of ``reasonable'' ;-).  AFAIK, the
pseudo-random generators were working like that since time immemoriam,
and many people who write and use programs that need random sequences
(not only in C) are quite familiar with, and used to, this behavior.