Apart from the obvious consideration that repeating numbers are NOT random anymore, I guess what the original question asker wanted to know is:
I need to generate some random numbers (so I need a PRNG). Then, I need to save these random numbers somewhere so I can use them over and over again to check some kernel modules. Can't you simply write a C program that generates, say, 1 million random values, writes them to a file, and then use them? Enrico Granata Computer Science & Engineering Department (EBU3B) - Room 3240 office phone 858 534 9914 University of California, San Diego On Jan 29, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Andreas Leppert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > for my evaluation of different kernel modules which rely on randomness I > need the same set of random numbers for each of them. > > Is there any chance that I can get a random number which depends on a > kind of seed value? So if I start with the same seed value, the same > random numbers should be generated. > > If the same numbers are generated, then how can you call it random? > > Is there any way in the kernel to achieve this? > > Thanks for your hints, > Andreas Leppert > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
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