technique) so that we don't wind up calling into an application's
version if the application defines them.
Inspired by: qpopper's interfering and buggy version of strlcpy
package, a more recent, generalized set of routines. Among the
changes:
- Declare strtof() and strtold() in stdlib.h.
- Add glue to libc to support these routines for all kinds
of ``long double''.
- Update printf() to reflect the fact that dtoa works slightly
differently now.
As soon as I see that nothing has blown up, I will kill
src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.c. Soon printf() will be able
to use the new routines to output long doubles without loss
of precision, but numerous bugs in the existing code must
be addressed first.
Reviewed by: bde (briefly), mike (mentor), obrien
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...
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.
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.
to be called on first sight of trouble.
"sensitive" is somewhat arbitrarily defined as "setuid, setgid, uid == root
or gid == wheel".
The 'A' option carries no performance penalty.
It is not possible to override this setting: fix the program instead.
Absentmindedly nodded OK to by: various
to Solaris, it is in /usr/libexec) to perform the handing over of tty nodes
to the user being granted the pty.
Submitted by: Ryan Younce <ryany@pobox.com>
Reviewed by: security-officer@, standards@, mike@
