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From: hoyt@polyslo.UUCP (Sir Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: mpss on SYS V ???
Message-ID: <3382@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 23:12:06 GMT
References: <2843@tekred.TEK.COM> <301@pcsbst.UUCP> <302@pcsbst.UUCP>
Reply-To: hoyt@polyslo.calpoly.edu.UUCP (Sir Hoyt)
Organization: WanderLand, San Luis Obispo
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In article <302@pcsbst.UUCP> sws4!torsten@pcsbst.UUCP (torsten) writes:
>In article <301@pcsbst.UUCP> cochise!mike@pcsbst.UUCP (Mike Schroeder) writes:
>>"Memory fault" ;-(
>	Memory fault.
>	Perhaps that's the game ?-)
>		Torsten.


The reason for the 'Memory fault' is the impropper use
of time(3) in slave.c at line 322.

It was:
        srand(time() % 10);
        sleep(rand() % 10);

It should be:
        srand(time(0L) % 10);
        sleep(rand() % 10);

	
	Note the missing '0L' in the first case.

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