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Jones: system call abuseJones: system call abusePosted Nov 10, 2010 6:03 UTC (Wed) by MisterIO (guest, #36192)Parent article: Jones: system call abuse
If the function checks if a value is between 0 and 3, isn't it better to do rand % 4 then?
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Jones: system call abuse Posted Nov 10, 2010 6:18 UTC (Wed) by wahern (subscriber, #37304) [Link]
Ha. Good catch. If it was meant between 0 and 3 inclusive then yes. And that's fair assumption in this case, because if it was meant exclusive then rand() % 3 still wouldn't be right; you'd need (rand() % 2) + 1.
You can take the programmer out of the python. Posted Nov 10, 2010 13:42 UTC (Wed) by gmatht (guest, #58961) [Link]
But you can't take the python out of the programmer.
$ python
Perhaps he was testing the secret rewrite of Linux in Python? ;)
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