> From: Ben Laurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:11 PM
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote: > > He did give a very detailed overview of his proposed API, if you go > > back read his original response. The problem is that I haven't the > > first idea of how to start implementing it. And his API seems to > > Well, I'll worry about how to implement it, but... > > > focus on passing parameters that tweak the quality of the randomness, > > but for Subversion, what really matters in the non-blocking aspect. > > I'd really like to understand this - if you really don't care about > quality of randomness, why aren't you using rand()? Or a fixed number? > > What is the randomness used for? It's used by apr-utils uuid generation code. Sander
