From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
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 17:24:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31uxmwax7.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1fwm21evl.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:14:54 +0800")
Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> But you can arrange to seed it once when that file is loaded. No need to
> seed it every time.
Calling it once every time you send an email isn't really heavy usage of
the re-seeding.
> BTW, (random t) produces no random numbers.
>
> (loop repeat 5 collect (random t))
>
> =>
>
> (2265815277832325116 2265815277832325116 2265815277832325116
> 2265815277832325116 2265815277832325116)
Oops. :-) Fixed now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 15:24 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
2011-07-19 15:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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