Re: Completeness status of musl

[Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:46:40AM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * 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

I like this. A couple questions/requests:

1. Is this simple code really equivalent (aside from the missing
non-default-size code) to the ugly BSD code that's 100x bigger and
full of undefined behavior? :)

2. If you'd like me to include this in musl, can you please license it
(either LGPL v2.1+ or any LGPL-compatible/less-restrictive license
such as BSD).

3. For future code contributions, please attach the code/patches to
the email rather than just including a link. That way the code being
referred to/discussed is visible even if the version on the website
changes or the website it taken down.

Rich