Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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.

`random' is supposed to be a PRNG, not an RNG.
I don't see any reason why we should make it significantly better than
libc's own PRNG (i.e. any bug report on a weakness of our `random'
should be forwarded to the corresponding libc's maintainers).

OTOH we should provide a way to seed the PRNG with an RN as well as to
re-seed it with the same seed.


        Stefan