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[Gordon Worley]

At 12:14 PM -0400 6/27/01, Gordon Worley wrote:
>At 9:38 AM -0400 6/27/01, Gordon Worley wrote:
>>Okay, first, let's make sure we're talking about the same thing. 
>>rndunix is what I'm getting if I call rnd(), correct?  I assumed 
>>that's what you meant, but I thought I'd better check.  If this is 
>>it, yes, the patterns are horrible, often generating alternative 
>>odd and even numbers and such other obvious patterns.
>
>Okay, we seemed to be saved.  I can't find rndunix on my system 
>anywhere; the only place randomness comes from is stdlib from 
>rand().  From what I can tell, the reason for getting such unrandom 
>numbers is because rndunix is not used.  Could someone working with 
>Darwin directly confirm (I'm going to try to check this out myself, 
>but if someone could confirm for me, that would just as good)?

Looking around the source code I couldn't find anything, but then I 
don't know Darwin that well, so maybe I just couldn't find it.

Anyway, if the case is as I have restated it, egd should be safe on 
OS X, correct?
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