RFR (S): CR 8005926: (thread) Merge ThreadLocalRandom state into java.lang.Thread

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/01/2013 09:40, Peter Levart wrote:
> If this is an API change, then it might as well be a change in the 
> serializability of the ThreadLocalRandom instance. Since TLR extends 
> Random which is already Serializable, this could be done by throwing 
> appropriate exception in writeObject().
>
> I don't think anyone would really notice.
Dubious as it might be, I'm sure it would break somebody so I think it 
would be safer not to do this.

-Alan.