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Re: `Random' seed.
Rick Busdiecker writes:
> FWIW, I discussed this code briefly with an engineer at Netscape a
> while back . . . .
> signal(SIGALRM,printbit);
> alarm(1);
> while (1)
> count++;
I for one would be a little peeved if I found that my browser was
consuming all available CPU bandwidth on my workstation. I also have
some doubts as to the randomness of this; I suspect that the kernel is
rather deterministic in its scheduling practices.
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