[TYPO3-core] RFC #9852: Feature: Provide a random byte generator in TYPO3 Core

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> 
> Additionally there should be extra pair of ( and ) because Zend
> Studio complains about assignment in condition.
> 
> +		while (!isset($output{$count - 1})) {
> +			$random_state = md5(microtime() . mt_rand() . $random_state);
> +			$output .= md5(mt_rand() . $random_state, true);
> +		}

This could be the else-clause of the if-statement. Or is it meant to be
a fallback in case the fread failed or did not returned the number of
bytes requested? If so it should be documented.

Sidenote: is mt_rand() always available?

Masi