> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:11:24 -0700 > Cc: br...@clisp.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, la...@gnus.org, > 57...@debbugs.gnu.org, jporterb...@gmail.com > From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> > > > Thanks, but why not use 'random' instead? Emacs does have it on all > > platforms, including MS-Windows. AFAIU, it's better than 'rand'. > > If the code used 'random' then the Gnulib 'tempname' module would need > to add a dependency on the Gnulib 'random' module, which would in turn > add a cascading dependency on Gnulib's 'random_r' module. It's better to > avoid this dependency if we can easily do so. > > Come to think of it, we don't need to use 'rand' either, since > tempname.c already has a good-enough pseudorandom generator. I installed > into Gnulib the attached patch, which I hope fixes the Emacs problem > without changing glibc's generated code (once this gets migrated back > into glibc).
Thanks. Would it be possible to cherry-pick this to the emacs-28 branch, so that Emacs 28.2 would have this fixed?
