> with a read from /dev/random but it's not portable on all architectures
I believe reading from /dev/random can block. (As mentioned in Perl_seed(pTHX) you kindly pointed us to :). There's a non-blocking /dev/urandom, even less portable, but useful where it exists. There has been tons of research on this, and plenty of implementations too. But just using that Perl code, suitably munged, seems like the simplest thing to do :). I wonder whether GPL Ghostscript has already done something along these lines, or intentionally not implemented it for some good reason, or something. Isn't there a public bug database or something? Best, Karl _______________________________________________ bug-ghostscript mailing list bug-ghostscript@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ghostscript
