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| On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:42:57AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: | Dixitur illum weerd@weirdnet.nl scribere... | | >After some discussion with a friend, it turns out that the default ksh | >as shipped with OpenBSD has a ${RANDOM} which isn't very random : | | OpenBSD-current uses arc4random(3) until ${RANDOM} is first written | to, then random(3), instead of rand(3). | | //Thorsten Thorsten, Please read, my mail - there's a patch included in it which clearly fixes a problem in this setup. RANDOM gets written to in main.c, that is not good as it will always disable the use of arc4random. A (better (thank you Theo)) fix has already been committed. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/ |