[Chicken-janitors] Re: #218: random not random

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#218: random not random
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 Reporter:  zbigniew  |        Type:  defect        
   Status:  new       |    Priority:  minor         
Milestone:  4.6.0     |   Component:  core libraries
  Version:            |    Keywords:                
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Comment(by zbigniew):

 The behavior of rand(3) is so poor and inconsistent across systems that it
 may be better then to simply remove (random) from the core than to pretend
 it actually works.

 In the meantime, I updated man/4/Unit extras with warnings about the
 quality of random's randomness.

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