Entropy

Hi, mids & iip-dev people! :)

On Monday, February 24, 2003 07:20, mids wrote:
> Hi Hezekiah and UserX,
>
> How is the entropy doing?
>
> mids

	Well, I wrote up a fix for HEAD ... but it wouldn't have dealt with multibyte 
characters properly. Then UserX suggested a better fix that properly dealt 
with multibyte characters (and even dealt with repeating patterns!), but he 
wrote it early in the morning, so there were a few mistakes. Then I sent my 
questions/comments back, and he responded, and it looks like we finally might 
have a patch ready to commit to HEAD. :)
	However, on my machine clock() seems to always return 0. I'm probably not 
initializing it or something. (I asked UserX if that was the case in my last 
email.) Assuming, that I just need to run some initialization function to get 
clock() to return an accurate value, then we will probably have the entropy 
problem fixed for HEAD before the meeting tomarrow night! :) (I hope. I make 
NO garuntees!) ;-)
	So you could say that it's doing well! :)

	See y'all at the meeting tomarrow night!
	(Note: Has anyone ever noticed that an American in the northern half of 
America [i.e. a Yankee] will call a group entirely composed of girls, "you 
guys"? I think the Southern expression "y'all" which is short for "you all" 
is much more accurate ... even though I'm a good ol' Yankee!) ;-)

	-- Hezekiah

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