Re: Back to emacsclient/server

[Jason Rumney]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>  - server.el generates the authentication string with `random', but
> Emacs uses the same seed every time. I'm reluctant to call (random t)
> in server.el; Emacs doesn't do it for a good reason (repeatability).

I don't think repeatability is realistic within Emacs, because a Lisp 
function cannot have any control over other functions that might have 
called random before it. If repeatability is desired, then we need a 
function to set the random seed to a known value, so Lisp code that 
requires repeatability can call it at the start of its psuedorandom 
number generation. As far as I can tell, no such function exists.