At 01:55 PM 4/29/2001 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>At 13:58 29/4/2001, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>>The seed was initialized in MINIT before the children forked. So what 
>>happened was that the children started returning the same random numbers.
>
>It doesn't really matter where it was initialized, but rather, when it was 
>initialized...


Well as it was initialized in MINIT it is initialized *exactly* at the same 
time for all apache children. Therefore, the numbers returned by each child 
are the same.


>Jani - are you getting the same values after 5 reloads?  Or any chance 
>you're getting the same value if you're reloading very quickly, at the 
>same second?


Andi


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