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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:19:31 +0000
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To: Davey Shafik <davey@php.net>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] RNG fixes
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

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On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 at 20:56 Davey Shafik <davey@php.net> wrote:

>
> I think as this is a BC break it should require the 2/3 majority. I do
> support fixing the RNGs though.
>

Sure if there's a consensus on that, I have no problem with it.

Have you done any checks on GitHub etc to see how widespread this usage is?
> I'd like to get some data on that too.
>

I have checked, but it's really difficult to find legitimate use cases of
srand and mt_srand. I spent some time stacking up "NOT xyz" terms in the
search, and still didn't find anything that actually relied on
deterministic streams of numbers.

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