Re: CVS commit: src

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Jukka Ruohonen wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 08:40:53AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > n=4 would probably be enough iterations, and I'd suggest checking 
> 
> Adjusted.
> 
> By the way, some general RNG tests should be added too. I vaguely remember
> the so-called "diehard" tests somewhere from the 1990s -- perhaps something
> like that?

There used to be a test in regress/lib/libc/randomid/idtest.c but I
can't seem to locate that in the current source tree.  That tested for
duplicate random numbers within a given number of calls to randomid().

I'm sure that test could be adapted for this srandom/random test case as
well.

Cheers,
Simon.