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* Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> [2011-06-08 19:58:10 -0400]:
> 
> Importing external code, with major cleanups or rewrite:
> - PRNG (random)

i looked into this one
these functions are rather useless
imho the posix api definition is insane
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/random.html

i wrote something anyway
see comments in the code:
http://port70.net/~nsz/musl/prng