freebsd-dev/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.c
Andrey A. Chernov 49abb2a4f8 Back out "drop first N values" method of removing monotonically increased
seed->first value correlation. It breaks rand_r()... Other possible methods
like shuffling inside aray will breaks rand_r() too, because it assumes
only one word state, i.e. nothing extra can be added after seed assignment
in srand().

BTW, for old formulae seed->first value correlation is not so monotonically
increased as with other Linear Congruential Generators of this type only
becase arithmetic overflow happens. But overflow affects distribution
and lower bits very badly, as many articles says, such type of overflow
not improves PRNG.

So, monotonically increased seed->first value correlation problem remains...
2003-02-17 03:52:35 +00:00

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/*-
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* Posix rand_r function added May 1999 by Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>.
*/
#if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
static char sccsid[] = "@(#)rand.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93";
#endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#include "namespace.h"
#include <sys/time.h> /* for sranddev() */
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fcntl.h> /* for sranddev() */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h> /* for sranddev() */
#include "un-namespace.h"
#ifdef TEST
#include <stdio.h>
#endif /* TEST */
static int
do_rand(unsigned long *ctx)
{
#ifdef USE_WEAK_SEEDING
/*
* Historic implementation compatibility.
* The random sequences do not vary much with the seed,
* even with overflowing.
*/
return ((*ctx = *ctx * 1103515245 + 12345) % ((u_long)RAND_MAX + 1));
#else /* !USE_WEAK_SEEDING */
/*
* Compute x = (7^5 * x) mod (2^31 - 1)
* wihout overflowing 31 bits:
* (2^31 - 1) = 127773 * (7^5) + 2836
* From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
* Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
* October 1988, p. 1195.
*/
long hi, lo, x;
/* Can't be initialized with 0, so use another value. */
if (*ctx == 0)
*ctx = 123459876;
hi = *ctx / 127773;
lo = *ctx % 127773;
x = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
if (x < 0)
x += 0x7fffffff;
return ((*ctx = x) % ((u_long)RAND_MAX + 1));
#endif /* !USE_WEAK_SEEDING */
}
int
rand_r(unsigned int *ctx)
{
u_long val = (u_long) *ctx;
int r = do_rand(&val);
*ctx = (unsigned int) val;
return (r);
}
static u_long next = 1;
int
rand()
{
return (do_rand(&next));
}
void
srand(seed)
u_int seed;
{
next = seed;
}
/*
* sranddev:
*
* Many programs choose the seed value in a totally predictable manner.
* This often causes problems. We seed the generator using the much more
* secure random(4) interface.
*/
void
sranddev()
{
int fd, done;
done = 0;
fd = _open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY, 0);
if (fd >= 0) {
if (_read(fd, (void *) &next, sizeof(next)) == sizeof(next))
done = 1;
_close(fd);
}
if (!done) {
struct timeval tv;
unsigned long junk;
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
srand((getpid() << 16) ^ tv.tv_sec ^ tv.tv_usec ^ junk);
}
}
#ifdef TEST
main()
{
int i;
unsigned myseed;
printf("seeding rand with 0x19610910: \n");
srand(0x19610910);
printf("generating three pseudo-random numbers:\n");
for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
printf("next random number = %d\n", rand());
}
printf("generating the same sequence with rand_r:\n");
myseed = 0x19610910;
for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
printf("next random number = %d\n", rand_r(&myseed));
}
return 0;
}
#endif /* TEST */