Re: BIND and Solaris rand()

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 7 2009, Stacey Jonathan Marshall wrote: On 04/06/09 16:06, Chris Thompson wrote: It turns out that rand(3c) in even recent Solaris versions returns values in the range 0..32767 only. I suppose this is part of Sun's rather extreme paranoia about backwards compatibility with programs writt

Re: BIND and Solaris rand()

2009-04-07 Thread Stacey Jonathan Marshall
On 04/06/09 16:06, Chris Thompson wrote: It turns out that rand(3c) in even recent Solaris versions returns values in the range 0..32767 only. I suppose this is part of Sun's rather extreme paranoia about backwards compatibility with programs written before the flood. rand(3C) - simple random-num

BIND and Solaris rand()

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Thompson
It turns out that rand(3c) in even recent Solaris versions returns values in the range 0..32767 only. I suppose this is part of Sun's rather extreme paranoia about backwards compatibility with programs written before the flood. The specific thing that brought this to my attention was that, when u