I have spent the last week researching all the uses of the srand(),
srandom(), and srand48() subsystems in the ports tree.
These three APIs are standardized into C89, POSIX, XPG42, etc. Rather
unfortunate, since they suck, and their existance suckers developers
into doing the wrong thing.
The
Hello,
Small comment below.
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 01:55:47PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
I have spent the last week researching all the uses of the srand(),
srandom(), and srand48() subsystems in the ports tree.
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RAND(3)Library Functions Manual
On 12/08/2014 09:55 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Index: lib/libc/stdlib/mrand48.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/mrand48.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -u -r1.3 mrand48.c
--- lib/libc/stdlib/mrand48.c 8 Aug 2005
On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:00:01 +0100, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen wrote:
POSIX says mrand48 is meant to return signed integers in the interval
[-2^31,2^31), but this code returns an unsigned 32-bit integer value.
Which gets cast to a signed integer in that same range...
- todd
On 12/09/2014 12:06 AM, Todd C. Miller wrote:
Which gets cast to a signed integer in that same range...
Except long is larger than 32 bits on 64-bit platforms.
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 00:00, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen wrote:
On 12/08/2014 09:55 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Index: lib/libc/stdlib/mrand48.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/mrand48.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p
