Re: Rolldice 1.1

1999-01-27 Thread Colin Plumb
Stevie Strickland wrote: Because not all Debian GNU/Linux systems have /dev/urandom (at least I, personally, had to mknod c 1 9 /dev/urandom myself), and I want this running on any basic system... eventually, when I had more time (like this weekend), I was going to add a command line option to

Re: Rolldice 1.1

1999-01-27 Thread Peter Makholm
Colin Plumb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, here's a modified version, with a good RNG (a variant of George Marsaglia's highly-regarded KISS generator) stuck in for the cases where /dev/urandom isn't available. It's seeded with gettimeofday(), getpid() and getppid(). Is this part of

Re: Rolldice 1.1

1999-01-27 Thread Stevie Strickland
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:25:46AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: I just wondered what it haves to do with debian? Debian-devel is for developer for the Debian Distibution, not for general developer of any kind of free software. Yes, I agree wholeheartedly... since the previous two messages