[LAD] random curiosity

[cal]

Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, cal wrote:
> 
>> Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>>> [ ... ]
>>>     srandom_r(salt, &seed);
>>>
>>> Thus, if you repeat the note with identical velocity... you'll always
>>> get the same random-number sequence.
>>
>> or do you just get a segfault :-) ?
> 
> Wow.  random_r() is /really/ poorly documented. Non-segfaulting example 
> attached.

Yeah, I too wandered innocently into the parallel universe alluded to here
(and no doubt elsewhere) <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3662>.
I thought wow, that was 2006! Surely it's been sorted by now. Apparently not.

Cheers.