From: Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: John Marshall <John.W.Marshall@glasgow.ac.uk>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
"linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: AW: AW: [patch] random.3: wfix: RAND_MAX is for rand(3)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 12:50:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113d0a16dab434089eae4a80bf9674e@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200608112101.fuilahvdbacmdah6@jwilk.net>
misunderstanding,
the page random(3) says (in my version)
"range from 0 to 2**31-1." it does not mention
rand_max, INT32_MAX or some other constant only the numerical value.
It happens to be INT32_MAX, but in this case i would simply drop it.
________________________________________
Von: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Gesendet: Montag, 8. Juni 2020 13:21:01
An: Walter Harms
Cc: John Marshall; Michael Kerrisk; linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Betreff: Re: AW: [patch] random.3: wfix: RAND_MAX is for rand(3)
* Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>, 2020-06-08, 11:10:
>INT32_MAX is not mentioned in the POSIX page
Yes, it is:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdint.h.html#tag_13_47_03_02
--
Jakub Wilk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-08 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-05 17:21 random(3) and RAND_MAX John Marshall
2020-06-06 12:45 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-06-08 11:04 ` [patch] random.3: wfix: RAND_MAX is for rand(3) John Marshall
2020-06-08 11:10 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-06-08 11:20 ` John Marshall
2020-06-08 11:21 ` AW: " Jakub Wilk
2020-06-08 12:50 ` Walter Harms [this message]
2020-06-08 20:27 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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