Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:06:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: Ove Kaaven <ovek AT arcticnet DOT no>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: rand() or random()
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On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Okay, how about this:
> 
> int _random(void)
> { /* code from BSD random() */ }
> 
> int random(void) { return _random(); }

I'm not lawyer enough to tell whether the BSD copyright on the 
original `random' allows to change its name to `_random'.