From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 14:05:03 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87ipu3v0ru.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871v0raqub.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <42A7030B-DE0C-4CCA-A768-B82BE70C42F9@raeburn.org> <87liyynm6a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83aaewjq1x.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjsnvrkr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304960714 6995 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2011 17:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 17:05:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 19:05:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJTtP-0006a2-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 19:05:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJTtO-0001m6-Hc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJTtM-0001kJ-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJTtL-0000qW-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJTtL-0000qS-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from 213-159-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.159.213]:39534 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJTtK-0000uz-EA; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0886F66152; Mon, 9 May 2011 14:05:04 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 09 May 2011 17:59:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139283 Archived-At: >> OTOH we should provide a way to seed the PRNG with an RN as well as to >> re-seed it with the same seed. > As long as you don't re-seed with /dev/random. I do mean "a number coming from /dev/random" when I say "RN". But I did not say to do it all the time: only to provide a way to do it. Stefan