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Re: [PATCH v2][BZ 14561] Separate rand and random seeds.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:33:48 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2][BZ 14561] Separate rand and random seeds.
- References: <20130520190628 dot GA22088 at domone dot kolej dot mff dot cuni dot cz> <519E93F3 dot 8060203 at redhat dot com> <20130603222514 dot GB26974 at domone dot kolej dot mff dot cuni dot cz> <20130603224129 dot 265BD2C05B at topped-with-meat dot com>
On 06/03/2013 06:41 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> As I said before, this needs to be a new symbol version for srand and rand.
Is this because you're expecting applications to depend on the
current implementation's behaviour?
No such guarantee ever existed. Do we really need new symbol versions?
I'm all for preserving backwards compatibility if people think we need it here,
but it feels a little overkill.
Cheers,
Carlos.