[PATCH v2][BZ 14561] Separate rand and random seeds.
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Tue Jun 4 15:34:00 GMT 2013
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.
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