Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:93988 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70472 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2016 23:15:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 2016 23:15:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=fsb@thefsb.org; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=fsb@thefsb.org; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain thefsb.org designates 67.192.241.131 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: fsb@thefsb.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.192.241.131 smtp131.dfw.emailsrvr.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [67.192.241.131] ([67.192.241.131:55533] helo=smtp131.dfw.emailsrvr.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FD/08-27860-F0090675 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:15:28 -0400 Received: from smtp17.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp17.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 41D0E8024B; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:15:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Auth-ID: fsb@thefsb.org Received: by smtp17.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id ED0EB8025D; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:15:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender-Id: fsb@thefsb.org Received: from yossy.local (c-66-30-62-12.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [66.30.62.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA) by 0.0.0.0:587 (trex/5.5.4); Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:15:25 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net, Fleshgrinder References: Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:15:24 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] RNG fixes From: fsb@thefsb.org (Tom Worster) On 6/14/16 1:45 PM, Fleshgrinder wrote: > Why do we need so many functions to get a random int anyways if we now > have random_int()? For backwards compatibility. There are programs that use these and little to gain from breaking them. Tom