On 10/10/2022 10:34 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 6:32 PM Clinton Bunch <cdbunch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I wonder if it wouldn't be worthwhile to create a module that gave access to better sources of random numbers on the systems that support them.zmodload zsh/mathfunc print $(( rand48() ))
Yeah, I know about e/rand48 but that's only slightly better than rand().I was suggesting something that accessed the kernel entropy pool like bash's SRANDOM variable. I know not every Unix has such a thing, but it would be useful on those that do.