Re: [PATCH 13/10] tests for various pack index features

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:57:09AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

Hmmm what we need is a random data generator that always produces the 
same thing.  I'll hack something to replace urandom.

Don't hack something, ues the standard reference, the Mersenne Twister.

  http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html

PRNGs are the same as cryptosystems, it's very easy to hack up
something and get it very, very wrong.  And it's unnecessary, since
there are very good ones available.

  OG.