From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:52:29 -0400 Message-ID: <87liyynm6a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87ipu3v0ru.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871v0raqub.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <42A7030B-DE0C-4CCA-A768-B82BE70C42F9@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303761158 23495 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2011 19:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Dev To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 21:52:35 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 1QERpi-0006N4-KK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:52:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59070 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QERpi-0002av-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42580) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QERpg-0002aq-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QERpf-0000g6-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.145]:60169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QERpf-0000g2-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014006.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p3PJqTjB031676 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BE30E160234; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:52:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <42A7030B-DE0C-4CCA-A768-B82BE70C42F9@raeburn.org> (Ken Raeburn's message of "Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:21:23 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.145 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.145 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:138765 Archived-At: Ken Raeburn writes: > I wouldn't consider the elisp 'random' function to be remotely good > enough though. You mean, because of the way it's seeded? I guess we can (should?) improve it to use /dev/random where that's available.