Re: [BUG] fill_random_bytes broken

On Wed, Jul 25 2007, Shawn Lewis wrote:
> verify.c: fill_random_bytes() doesn't work as intended.
>
> drand48 on linux returns a double whose value is evenly distributed between
> 0.0 and 0.1. This is not the same as having an 8-byte value where each bit
> has the same chance of being 0 as it does of being 1.
>
> I'd fix this but it should probably be done in a cross-platformish way and
> I'm not quite sure how to do it. Maybe just use smaller randoms? Have an
> os_random_uint32?

Hmm indeed, that looks problematic. If you have a suggested fix, fire
away :-)

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Jens Axboe