Re: A patch to get rid of system rand/srand/etc.
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Sat, 04 Aug 2001 05:25:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: A patch to get rid of system rand/srand/etc. | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Jani Taskinen wrote:
>
> This patch will replace PHP functions srand() / rand() / getrandmax()
> with the mt_*() ones. The mt_*() are changed to aliases.
>
> If nobody objects, I will commit this tomorrow.
I object. srand/rand are deterministic and usually portable
algorithms (i.e. with the same seed, the return results of
rand are the same) which certain programs rely on. There
might be some scripts out there which use this feature,
either for themselves or in order to communicate/synchronize
with programs written in C.
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