From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 9118@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9118: 23.3.50; Don't seed the RNG in message-unique-id
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:14:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1fwm21evl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339i2z5bc.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:57:27 +0200")
On 2011-07-19 22:57 +0800, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Unfortunately, Emacs doesn't seed itself on startup, so (random x) will
> return the same thing every time you start Emacs.
>
> So I don't think changing this is appropriate at this time.
But you can arrange to seed it once when that file is loaded. No need to
seed it every time. BTW, (random t) produces no random numbers.
(loop repeat 5 collect (random t))
=>
(2265815277832325116 2265815277832325116 2265815277832325116 2265815277832325116 2265815277832325116)
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 16:42 bug#9118: 23.3.50; Don't seed the RNG in message-unique-id Leo
2011-07-19 14:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-19 15:14 ` Leo [this message]
2011-07-19 15:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-19 15:44 ` Leo
2011-07-19 15:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-20 2:12 ` Leo
2011-07-20 20:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-21 4:45 ` Leo
2011-07-21 11:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-21 15:58 ` Leo
2011-07-31 15:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-31 16:02 ` Leo
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