Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > Follow-up Comment #4, patch #6797 (project coreutils): > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I really don't understand the reluctance to > utilize the (already implemented) internal random number generator. It's > there, it costs nothing extra to use it, it doesn't require extra programs > that generate random data, nor external files. It's even the default case > when /dev/urandom does not exist. What is the downside?
None as far as I can see: No new options. Relatively small change to optionally seed from /dev/urandom (once is enough). No external dependencies. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
