On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 11:22, Chris Fedde wrote: > The behavior is understandable. Both parent and child sequences > are seeded from the same initial value. This behavior is an important > feature of psuedo random number generators. I can imagine scenarios > where this behavior might be desireable. Maybe a better approach > for your coworker would be to use /dev/random or prngd.
I understand. We reached the same conclusions once we found out how this happened. It was simply unexpected. Perhaps some notes or comments about this behavior in POD will suffice. Pete
