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Use portable C++ Pseudorandom number generator

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#10,541 opened on Apr 17, 2024

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Avoid calls to rand / srand / random / srandom and other things which are not portable to Windows

Originally posted by @edolstra in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8901#discussion_r1568529190

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Locate all uses of rand, srand, random, srandom in the codebase and replace them with C++11 standard library random number generators (e.g., std::mt19937) for portability.
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