On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:37:36 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dougherty wrote:
>Still, even for me, I have never encountered a case where I wanted to
>maintain the same rand() sequence and also use a one-arg crypt().
>
>> I will add a note aboput this to the RFC. If there are no other
>> comments, I will freez
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> And the problem you describe is not really a problem. There has never
> been any guarantee that a program would produce the same sequence of
> random numbers after a change to the Perl binary.
> random numbers after a change to the Perl binary. M
Bart Lateur:
> >If there are no objections, I will freeze this in twenty-four hours.
>
> Oh, I have a small one: I feel that this pseudo-random salt should NOT
> affect the standard random generator. I'll clarify: by default, if you
> feed the pseudo-random generator with a certain number, you'l
On 16 Sep 2000 22:40:24 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>BL> Therefore, crypt() should have it's own pseudo-random generator. A
>BL> simple task, really: same code, but a different seed variable.
>
>Should rand be extended to be able to support multiple random number
>generators?
Not just srand().
> "BL" == Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> Therefore, crypt() should have it's own pseudo-random generator. A
BL> simple task, really: same code, but a different seed variable.
Should rand be extended to be able to support multiple random number
generators?
=item srand EXPR, RAND
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:58:46 -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>If there are no objections, I will freeze this in twenty-four hours.
Oh, I have a small one: I feel that this speudo-random salt should NOT
affect the standard random generator. I'll clarify: by default, if you
feed the pseudo-random
> =head1 TITLE
>
> crypt() default salt
>
> =head1 VERSION
>
> Maintainer: Mark Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 11 Sep 2000
> Last Modified: 13 Sep 2000
> Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Number: 208
> Version: 2
> Status: Developing
If there are no objections, I will freez
