> > 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?
awk in OpenBSD has been true-random since this commit:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mill...@cvs.openbsd.org 2011/04/20 16:28:39
Modified files:
usr.bin/awk : run.c
Log message:
Stash the old seed when srand() is called and use it as the return
value as per POSIX and the fine manual. Fix sent upstream to bwk.
OK deraadt@
If you use srand() directly in awk, it reverts to the standards-defined
behaviour. The same semantic is present in our ksh.
