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Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? |
Date: |
Mon, 09 May 2011 17:53:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
> With Chong's proposal GnuTLS would be used, so I think it's fine :)
Well, applications should never use /dev/random, since it will block,
and depleting it will make both Emacs and other programs suffer.
Using /dev/urandom is fine, though.
But I think /dev/urandom should only be used as a seed, really. Nobody
needs that much randomness in Emacs, I think.
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- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, (continued)
- 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, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <=
- 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
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, joakim, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Jason Rumney, 2011/05/10
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/30