@RichFelker @staatsgeheim It is absolutely non-standard, but also completely necessary, thread from last year: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=141807224826859&w=2 …
@staatsgeheim @canadianbryan In particular 2-pass encoding with mplayer is broken with -vf noise; each pass sees different frames.
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@staatsgeheim@canadianbryan They broke valid correct programs for a false sense of fixing hopelessly broken ones. -
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@staatsgeheim@canadianbryan No, they weren't. rand() is for REPRODUCIBLE, DETERMINISTIC prng use. Anything using it for entropy is broken. -
@staatsgeheim@canadianbryan Things like random image generators where you want to reproduce the same image with the same seed. -
@staatsgeheim@canadianbryan Or statistical simulations that need to be reproducible. -
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@staatsgeheim@canadianbryan It's not "backwards compatible" if you need to change correct portable programs to use nonstd obsd apis. - 4 more replies
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@RichFelker thanks for the heads-up, I've sent a diff to the mplayer port maintainer.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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