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17 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrey A. Chernov
192b5193c7 Fix typo in the comment 2007-12-11 20:39:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
c879ae3536 Per Regents of the University of Calfornia letter, remove advertising
clause.

# If I've done so improperly on a file, please let me know.
2007-01-09 00:28:16 +00:00
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
Andrey A. Chernov
f3047249d4 Since we drop NSHUFF values now, set default seed to what it becomes
after srand(1)
2003-02-05 21:25:50 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
ddd972a9bd For rand(3) and random(3) TYPE_0 drop NSHUFF values right after srand{om}()
to remove part of seed -> 1st value correlation. Correlation still remains
because of algorithm limits. Note that old algorithm have even stronger
correlation, especially in the lower bits area, but not eye-visible, as
current one.
2003-02-04 11:24:08 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
2f5ef51de2 Park & Miller PRNG can be safely initialized with any value but 0 and stuck
at 0 as designed. Its BSD adaptation tries to fight it by mapping 0 to
2147483647 after calculation, but this method not works since 2147483647
seed returns to 0 again on the next interation. Instead of after calculation
mapping, map 0 to another value _before_ calculation, so it never stucks.
2003-02-03 10:22:12 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
62c4150e1e For some combinations of variable sizes and RAND_MAX value rand_r()
may store less amount bits for seed, than available. Fix it.
2003-02-02 14:27:51 +00:00
Tim J. Robbins
2b6839cf10 Add missing #include "namespace.h". 2003-01-03 23:38:21 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
333fc21e3c Fix the style of the SCM ID's.
I believe have made all of libc .c's as consistent as possible.
2002-03-22 21:53:29 +00:00
Mark Murray
724641c6f4 Add a long-overdue nail to the deprecated /dev/urandom interface
by asking some things that need unpredictable numbers to read
/dev/random instead.
2001-10-30 21:26:50 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
a7d81577d6 urandom(4) -> random(4) in comments.
PR:		27858
Submitted by:	Yoshihiro Koya <Yoshihiro.Koya@math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp>
Reviewed by:	md5(1)
Approved by:	markm
2001-06-07 02:32:18 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
4890ae810e Add #include "un-namespace.h" 2001-04-23 10:38:26 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
848422bb7d srand*dev() fallback code: change ^getpid() to ^(getpid() << 16) to allow
change of high word part too to produce more interesting seed distribution.
2001-04-23 10:14:28 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
7708205cb7 Add sranddev() since srand() is not vary much with seed, typical time 2001-04-23 02:29:10 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
cbcf73f998 Use formula with better random distribution for rand()
Even better formula from random() could not be intetgrated because rand_r()
supposed to store its state in the single variable (but table needed for
random() algorithm integration).
2001-02-27 14:42:19 +00:00
Wes Peters
b7edcd43b5 Added Posix rand_r function. 1999-05-24 23:30:14 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
58f0484fa2 BSD 4.4 Lite Lib Sources 1994-05-27 05:00:24 +00:00