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Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? |
Date: |
Mon, 09 May 2011 18:26:43 +0300 |
> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Leo <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> 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.
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, (continued)
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Chong Yidong, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
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- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
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- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/09
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