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From: Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org>
To: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: use of rand() in zsh
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:32:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebba340d-821c-7bfd-794e-4b9b55f66868@zentaur.org> (raw)

Is there a reason that zsh goes out of the way (srand_deterministic) to 
use the least random "random" function on modern Unix?  I would think a 
zrandom function that used getrandom() or arc4random() or /dev/urandom 
would serve better. But before I write one, I wanted to know if there 
was a reason that isn't obvious to me.


(I have an idea for a new module builtin that solved the mktemp race in 
zsh scripts and it should use a better random source than rand())



             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-10 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-10 23:32 Clinton Bunch [this message]
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
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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