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nspr package

  1. Hardy (8.04)
  2. Bug #269188
  3. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 269188

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In , Gavin Sharp (gavin-sharp) wrote :

There are three callers of PR_GetRandomNoise in the Mozilla source tree outside of NSPR:

1) Use of PR_GetRandomNoise in nsUUIDGenerator.cpp was discussed in bug 279521.
2) nsMetricsService.cpp uses the "noise" to stagger update requests randomly - it doesn't really care that the numbers might not be sufficiently random.
3) nsXFormsXPathFunctions::Random passes the return value of PR_GetRandomNoise to srand().