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Problem: global random init/deinit breaks existing applications
Solution: restrict it only to the original issue zeromq#2632, Tweetnacl on *NIX when using /dev/urandom, ie: without the new Linux getrandom() syscall. Existing applications might use atexit to register cleanup functions (like CZMQ does), and the current change as-is imposes an ordering that did not exist before - the context MUST be created BEFORE registering the cleanup with atexit. This is a backward incompatible change that is reported to cause aborts in some applications. Although libsodium's documentation says that its initialisation APIs is not thread-safe, nobody has ever reported an issue with it, so avoiding the global init/deinit in the libsodium case is the less risky option we have. Tweetnacl users on Windows and on Linux with getrandom (glibc 2.25 and Linux kernel 3.17) are not affected by the original issue. Fixes zeromq#2991
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