From: Emanuel Berg via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: urandom number in Emacs
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:13:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl2woma5.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lf21nsxe.fsf@zoho.eu
> This is a dynamic module with a function that reads from
> /dev/urandom ... so more random numbers with
> `random-urandom' than with `random' (since Lisp cannot read
> from /dev/urandom because it's a non-regular file - IIUC?) -
> so instead this uses the same C as in pwgen(1) to do it,
> pretty simple I guess :P
>
> So now one can do (random-urandom) ... like any other Lisp
> function and be on everyone else's level. Only cooler B)
>
> See a very long discussion on gmane.emacs.help ...
>
> Anyway, one C file, one C header file, and one Makefile
> here:
>
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/random-urandom/
>
> Just do 'make run'.
... Hello?
Information theory guys? Practical guys writing it in Lisp?
Portable and without any external tools? Why, don't run away
all of a sudden?
Can anyone hear me?
I mean _this_ time around?
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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2021-11-06 16:35 urandom number in Emacs Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2021-11-07 0:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2021-11-07 8:22 ` Omar Polo
2021-11-07 8:49 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2021-11-07 8:53 ` Omar Polo
2021-11-07 9:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-07 8:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
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