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thanks
Andries,
Von: Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 07:35:30PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This can be replaced by
FreeBSD adds a function
void sranddev(void);
that
Hrvoje,
Better yet, the limited space available in a man page should be spent
documenting the API Linux does support. For example, it could mention
that RAND_MAX is not 32767, unlike many other systems. It could
mention that RAND_MAX+1 causes an overflow on Linux, breaking poorly
written
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:34:37AM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
I have provided arguments for my position, to which you failed to
respond. You didn't give any reasons why you consider FreeBSD to be
very similar to Linux
No response is needed. If you do not understand that the specific
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:34:37AM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
I have provided arguments for my position, to which you failed to
respond. You didn't give any reasons why you consider FreeBSD to be
very similar to Linux
No response is needed. [...]
[Andries Brower CCed since he may have written the original text]
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.02-2
Severity: minor
Man page for rand(3) claims the following:
FreeBSD adds a function
void sranddev(void);
that initializes the seed for their bad random
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:58:24PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
[Andries Brower CCed since he may have written the original text]
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.02-2
Severity: minor
Man page for rand(3) claims the following:
FreeBSD adds a function
Michael Kerrisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see two possible ways of dealing with this:
1. s/random()/random(4)/ in the Linux page.
2. Simply remove this text from the page.
What do you think?
The first possibility doesn't make sense without also removing the
deridive adjective strange,
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This can be replaced by
FreeBSD adds a function
void sranddev(void);
that initializes the seed for rand() with a value obtained from
the /dev/random device.
But why waste space on functions on other operating systems that Linux
doesn't have?
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 07:35:30PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This can be replaced by
FreeBSD adds a function
void sranddev(void);
that initializes the seed for rand() with a value obtained from
the /dev/random device.
But why waste
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But why waste space on functions on other operating systems that Linux
doesn't have?
All Unix-like operating systems are rather similar.
Except this function has no root in Unix tradition, it is a FreeBSD
invention not shared by other Unix-like
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:39:55AM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
[muttering that he does not want to hear about differences
between the FreeBSD and the Linux API for the rand() family of functions;
don't know why - I always consider info about differences important]
But now that I see my text
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:39:55AM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
[muttering that he does not want to hear about differences
between the FreeBSD and the Linux API for the rand() family of functions;
don't know why - I always consider info about
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.02-2
Severity: minor
Man page for rand(3) claims the following:
FreeBSD adds a function
void sranddev(void);
that initializes the seed for their bad random generator rand() with
a value obtained from their good random generator
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