From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23847 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 04:03:28 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Jan 2002 04:03:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 27955 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2002 04:03:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16521 Received: (qmail 27943 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 04:03:19 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1020131040312.ZM13267@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:03:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20020131034651.GB7382@fysh.org> Comments: In reply to Zefram "Re: problems with RANDOM in subshells" (Jan 31, 3:46am) References: <20020131032041.GA13560@dman.com> <20020131034651.GB7382@fysh.org> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Zefram Subject: Re: problems with RANDOM in subshells Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jan 31, 3:46am, Zefram wrote: } Subject: Re: problems with RANDOM in subshells } } The shell is probably a good place to put an entropy collector; on systems } like Linux that have /dev/random we can just use the kernel device, } but on other systems the shell is still in a position to see a lot of } unpredictable timing data, so we can make randomness reliably available } to shell scripts on all Unices. (Does Perl have such a module yet?) According to search.cpan.org: Statistics-MaxEntropy-0.9 by Hugo WL ter Doest Released 26th November 1998 -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net