From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 17:59:40 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen 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 1304956802 14172 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2011 16:00:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 16:00:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 17:59:57 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 1QJSsG-00062J-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:59:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSsF-00036Y-UQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59171) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSsD-00036T-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSsC-0005dQ-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSsC-0005dD-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSsB-000601-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:59:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAgMAAAAqbBEUAAAADFBMVEVYOzubmnZyYkdFFyQB 9Pg3AAACWElEQVQokS3Ob0gTYRzA8d+2hHmWB5Jm+kZmjXkvajiskNHzyvBFoK57LncQTW1xW4H1 wl5E0OU05CyV6g69V+cNj9uzXkhCiBinjGCosBdBr8PqjW+arcI/y6cJfd993n1BtkRcSfK4o00Q NJSFRFLIIddyBiggtW8uKqf06xKkmU7tlZoIF07r3WAH1DuCsFA+ilsavD2Dn9Qc7Bm7EtMMUx9x Mc/IsDFBmuHIfTOeJMYVRuLqoMzfxxbxdbqyeRMWv4e3m3xGB//cm4LU/tA2gUCb3cAosFp2cnl3 6nx3hvjBw9L/7QvwALFsqBCmZfRbAMnxLMGP2jWAjhIILA2VoH0tdPUdhfh0LlgEyIWKzlfAaRQ8 vBjcXAo5O4BnnU5vC6mR91ZswLqjEHs+a15+TEAkTkSaMe+Z7x+lKximiFIPGg1kQWyceKiOfB6i tLgMRG+b2ln50krphgGK/uzG8ZnnxeEsyFZtF1qrKlHXOoZZy9VlWuRka3E3Cne9oW9VRLjw+tdm AohbxxxzzhguBhHEM7ETTb3cKPvpkg/ien0qGxk/tZgrcYBFOSC3VFdP+Os00EwciQW83GpMaQDb TRL97VNno5IiAFTxSWkLcSzhKqjHqlKgjdK2lgRZ7feTDz9FU9EJIBwh5OVjsWeDHCO2k+kaiA/n w0FgVZkjPQdzT7fCFNbx2FF1ZnBmmiIEI7jhr6DNXbPLFIFf49u1wMA4HKOe5/08FtfTtAJi8zoR bv95w1aAxV5rHveOkclcAXBfRPERg81PUgr41qDMkPRhOU/pP5dCFiObNKibAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Pocahaunted's _Make It Real_: "Save Yrself (It's Nice)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dX7vlFjWnZThd8XqKkD+UGrA5vw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:139275 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > 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. LispWorks 5.0 made that mistake, which meant that you could only start one instance per second (on machines without a high entropy source). -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/