Re: new module 'random'

[Jose E. Marchesi]

    While gnulib has a module 'random_r', it does not support random()
    portably.  I therefore had to recommend to the recutils author to
    use a different API, just for portability:
    <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-recutils/2012-01/msg00011.html>

Note that my reason for preferring random to random_r in code which must
not be reentrant is the not documented requirement of memsetting the
random_data passed to initstate_r to zeroes.  Even if that trick works
with the current versions of glibc (and the random_r module from gnulib)
AFAIK nothing guarantees that it will work in the future.

    So here's a module that will guarantee the availability of random() and
    associated functions.

Great, thank you! :)

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