OpenBSD routes around POSIX
OpenBSD routes around POSIX
Posted Dec 11, 2014 5:44 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)In reply to: OpenBSD routes around POSIX by JoeBuck
Parent article: OpenBSD routes around POSIX
Most people who do scientific simulations don't use the OS RNG functions -- they use, eg, the GSL versions (which support specifying a seed and replaying) or something else. Mainly, the OS-supplied versions are unreliable -- even if the OpenBSD version is excellent, the program needs to be portable.