[libdispatch-dev] libdispatch compiles under Linux but arc4random(3) is missing

[Mario Schwalbe]

Hi,

Mark Heily schrieb:
> Good news: libdispatch now compiles successfully under Linux using
> libkqueue r96 or higher.

Great. I also like to use libdispatch on linux.

> The test programs in the testing/ directory fail to link because
> arc4random(3) is not available on Linux. I found a compatibility
> function written for BIND that might work; the URI is:
> 
> See below for the actual code. Any objections to adding something like
> this to libdispatch?

Why does libdispatch has to use arc4random at all? Since, this is not a
security-sensitive application but some testing code, why don't we use
rand/random, that should be available on all systems?

ciao,
Mario