Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Paul H. Hargrove" <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 | Date | Thu, 23 May 1996 04:11:32 -0700 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: [snip] > btw, libc should use this interface IMHO, in some way, thus applications > using libc *rand* functions could be enhanced. [snip]
This may be a well-intentioned suggestion, but it is not uncommon for an application to depend on the ability to generate the same sequence by using the same seed. Such reproducible sequences are very important when testing some codes.
-- Paul H. Hargrove All material not otherwise attributed hargrove@sccm.stanford.edu is the opinion of the author or a typo.
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