Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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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