Re: [Sbcl-help] "true" randomness

[Robert U. <ead...@gm...>]

Patrick Stein <sbc...@nk...> writes:
>
> A more typical approach is to read some bytes from /dev/urandom or use
> the current time or the current process-id to seed the pseudo-random
> number generator (PRNG).

My understanding is that's exactly what it's there for.

> In Lisp, I would say, see if (setf *random-state* (make-random-state
> t)) before you start-server does the trick.

Anyone know of the Right Way to initialise *RANDOM-STATE* from
/dev/urandom in SBCL?

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Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl>
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