Re: libxslt math.random issue

[fche () redhat com (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

Florian Weimer wrote:

> FWIW, why is glibc not doing srand(RANDOMVECTOR) during startup... :/
>
> The C standard does not allow it.
>
> ”
> If rand is called before any calls to srand have been made, the same
> sequence shall be generated as when srand is first called with a seed
> value of 1.
> ”

Yes, but that does not imply that srand(1) needs to resolve to a
build-constant value.  https://gitlab.com/fche/randomer salts it with a
snippet from /dev/urandom, and stays POSIX-compatible & restartable.

- FChE