After consultation with the C standard, deraadt and I have determined
that some speedups can be made the to algorithm used by rand().
Theo initially proposed seed++, but I think seed-- is less expected
and therefore makes a better random number generator.
Index: rand.c
After consultation with the C standard, deraadt and I have determined
that some speedups can be made the to algorithm used by rand().
Theo initially proposed seed++, but I think seed-- is less expected
and therefore makes a better random number generator.
Index: rand.c
Thanks for making my day :)
If random() is changed in the same way, the following 1144 packages
are possibly impacted.
They directly link in rand(), srand(), random() or srandom() from libc.
In a few cases, the application calls srandomdev() which then
short-cuts random() calls direct to
The following 81 packages use arc4random from libc.
In each case, I am not checking whether the use is due to upstream
selecting to use arc4random, or because the ports tree contains a
patch. But I suspect most of them are upstream choices.
I will not do an analysis for the drand48, erand48,
