Re: [libvirt] FreeBSD, no gcc present libvirt build issue

> Since gnulib has a working random_r() function can we just make > gnulib replace the boneheaded freebsd impl ? Huh - the glibc man pages state that random_r returns RAND_MAX bits. random_r is a glibc extension: POSIX only requires rand(), rand_r(), and random(); but even with random(), POSIX has no requirements that it be related to RAND_MAX - so the fact that glibc equates random()/random_r() with RAND_MAX is also a glibc extension. I guess that means we should't be worrying about RAND_MAX in the first place, as it is tied to the (potentially algorithmically weaker) rand(), and need not have any bearing on the fact that we already use gnulib's random_r(). I'll play around with a patch.