Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?

[joakim]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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

Is this thread relevant?

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/137319

(My interest is rather esoteric so I haven't done it yet for lack of
time. This is my usecase https://github.com/jave/el-tarot)



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Joakim Verona