From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mdadm 2.5 (Was: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux)
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 19:48:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060528174826.GK8203@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605281004010.30550@twinlark.arctic.org>
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:08:19AM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
>On Sun, 28 May 2006, Luca Berra wrote:
>
>> - mdadm-2.5-rand.patch
>> Posix dictates rand() versus bsd random() function, and dietlibc
>> deprecated random(), so switch to srand()/rand() and make everybody
>> happy.
>
>fwiw... lots of rand()s tend to suck... and RAND_MAX may not be large
>enough for this use. glibc rand() is the same as random(). do you know
the fact that glibc rand() is the same implementation as random() was one of the
reason i believe we could switch to rand()
>if dietlibc's rand() is good enough?
dietlibc rand() and random() are the same function.
but random will throw a warning saying it is deprecated.
L.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-26 6:33 ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Neil Brown
2006-05-28 13:32 ` [PATCH] mdadm 2.5 (Was: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux) Luca Berra
2006-05-28 17:08 ` dean gaudet
2006-05-28 17:48 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2006-05-28 21:42 ` dean gaudet
2006-05-29 2:08 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-29 5:44 ` Luca Berra
2006-05-29 6:06 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-05 19:47 ` [PATCH] mdadm 2.5 Nix
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2006-05-31 17:18 [PATCH] mdadm 2.5 (Was: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux) Alex Davis
2006-05-31 22:15 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2006-06-01 1:22 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-01 7:11 ` Luca Berra
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