[PATCH v2][BZ 14561] Separate rand and random seeds.

[Ondřej Bílka]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:11:57AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Is this because you're expecting applications to depend on the
> > current implementation's behaviour?
> 
> Knowingly doing so seems unlikely.  But subtle implicit expectations are
> possible and should be presumed.  This is the soul of conservatism.
> 
> > No such guarantee ever existed. Do we really need new symbol versions?
> 
> It was well-established and understood that rand/srand were just aliases.
> Yes, we need new symbol versions.

Well established where? I cannot verify this claim.

As BSD libc has them separated for time being this must be unportable
glibc extension.