On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 00:48, Alexey Suslikov wrote: >> > No, according to posix it should be thread safe. I don't know why, >> > since rand() is one of the exempted functions, but random() is not. >> > Standards gods are capricious gods. >> >> I think you should stress *should* here. Looking at the >> implementation, I cannot believe it's actually thread-safe. >> >> > How about rand, srand, srand48 etc?
Well, like I said :), rand is exempt. There's rand_r for that.
