Re: feature request: Pre-seeding the random number generator

2006-10-31 Thread Karl Berry
> 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 r

Re: feature request: Pre-seeding the random number generator

2006-10-27 Thread Sean M. Burke
On 10/22/2006 03:14 AM, Didier LINK wrote: Le samedi 21 octobre 2006 à 14:56 -0800, Sean M. Burke a écrit : This is a feature request: I'd really really appreciate if you could make the random number generator in ghostscript pre-seeded. Why do you need this enhancement exactly ? I like to ge

feature request: Pre-seeding the random number generator

2006-10-21 Thread Sean M. Burke
This is a feature request: I'd really really appreciate if you could make the random number generator in ghostscript pre-seeded. (Perl has been doing this for about ten years-- in the surprisingly rare circumstances where programmers want /predictable/ pseudorandomness, they just need to explicit