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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] RNG fixes
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de (Christoph Becker)

On 14.06.2016 at 20:46, Leigh wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 at 19:14 Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> In my opinion, we need at least one random function which yields
>> reproducible values.
>
> Even with the proposed changes both functions will still be capable of
> reproducible sequences, just different sequences than before the changes.

Yes, I'm aware of that, and that change isn't an issue for me (except
maybe that it might happen in a minor version).  I was responding to
Richard (Fleshgrinder) who suggested to remove rand() and mt_rand()
alltogether, because there is random_int().

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Christoph M. Becker