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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? |
| Date: | Mon, 09 May 2011 14:05:03 -0300 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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
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