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From:
Anthony Heading
Date:
November 9, 2003 20:44
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 make test failure on Solaris 2.6 - srand() related?
Message ID:
20031110044359.GA1035@tkd-fires-02.ja.jpmorgan.com

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:11:32PM +0900, Anthony Heading wrote:
> I'm seeing two failures with 5.8.2 on 'make test' for Solaris 2.6.
> 
> Both look related to random numbers seeding, which is obviously
> topical.  All seems fine on Solaris 2.8.

Solved.  A local problem, apologies.  /dev/urandom is a late
addition kernel module for Solaris 2.6, and the version we had
installed here was openable but broken, causing the random
number tests - correctly - to fail.

Anthony



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