> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM > From: "Theo de Raadt" <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> > To: t...@cvs.openbsd.org > Subject: Want to help upstream software improve their random? >
Not my business, but how do you handle cases of rand() & srand()-like calls from software like awk? What is and what should be the result of: for w in `seq 1 10`; do awk 'BEGIN{print int(rand() * 32767)}'; done or for w in `seq 1 10`; do awk 'BEGIN{srand(); print int(rand() * 32767)}'; done