Hi!

> <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69396>) - to sum up: if you provide
> $max parameter that is larger than OS-provided getmaxrand(), the
> result will be artificially stretched, which in result leads to some
> values not appearing at all. That’s troublesome if for instance some
> people use that function to choose random server for a service, and
> the stretched result wouldn’t return even values at all.

How many servers you've got? Also, why not use mt_rand()? It has max of
2^^31, if you have more servers than that you probably have very
uncommon use case :)

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Stas Malyshev
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