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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: use of rand() in zsh
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 08:31:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMr+aY5+JP1dRwz9VM49t-EZ1NjV7N8Wd+Zj0GXrZETTmg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473d6200-de7e-05b0-8ec1-cd49c4258cf8@zentaur.org>

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 5:44 AM Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org> wrote:
>
> I was suggesting something that accessed the kernel entropy pool like
> bash's SRANDOM variable.

I would use it, and I think most uses of $RANDOM would be better off
as $SRANDOM.

In the meantime I'm using this:
https://gist.github.com/romkatv/a6cede40714ec77d4da73605c5ddb36a

Roman.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-11  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-10 23:32 Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11  1:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-11  1:27   ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11  1:32     ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11  3:34       ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-11  3:44         ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11  6:31           ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2022-10-11 12:51             ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11 13:23               ` Peter Stephenson
2022-10-11 14:15                 ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11 14:48                   ` Peter Stephenson
2022-10-11 12:35   ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11 13:18     ` Peter Stephenson

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