Re: A patch to get rid of system rand/srand/etc.

> > > > 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. I have code which relies on this in the regression test harness for it. -Rasmus