Rewrite csrand_interval() as a wrapper around csrand_uniform()
The old code didn't produce very good random numbers. It had a bias. And that was from performing some unnecessary floating-point calculations that overcomplicate the problem. Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Cc: Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org> Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ extern void pw_free (/*@out@*/ /*@only@*/struct passwd *pwent);
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/* csrand.c */
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unsigned long csrand (void);
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unsigned long csrand_uniform (unsigned long n);
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unsigned long csrand_interval (unsigned long min, unsigned long max);
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/* remove_tree.c */
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extern int remove_tree (const char *root, bool remove_root);
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