Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Leo <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
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> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 11:09:24 -0400
> 
> I'm not sure we should introduce a separate function, though.  It makes
> more sense to improve the existing `random' primitive, making it return
> a random number (via /dev/random or /dev/urandom or GnuTLS) rather than
> a pseudo-random number when possible.
> 
> We could add an optional arg to `random' that says that if no secure
> random source is available, signal an error instead of falling back on
> the old method.

That'd be fine with me, thanks.