Re: is there a reseed srandom seed feature ?

[microsuxx]

SRANDOM i mean
will go with it

thxx++ mate

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 2:12 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:22:52 +0200, alex xmb sw ratchev wrote:
> > as topic .. just asking ..
>
> Are you talking about the SRANDOM variable, or the RANDOM variable?
>
> The man page describes each of them.  Assignment to RANDOM seeds that
> particular random number generator.  SRANDOM is not, and cannot be,
> seeded.  It uses the system's /dev/urandom interface.
>
>        SRANDOM
>               This variable expands to a 32-bit pseudo-random number each
> time
>               it is referenced. The random number generator is not
> linear  on
>               systems  that  support  /dev/urandom  or arc4random, so each
> re‐
>               turned number has no relationship to the numbers  preceding
> it.
>               The  random number generator cannot be seeded, so
> assignments to
>               this variable have no effect.  If SRANDOM is unset, it loses
> its
>               special properties, even if it is subsequently reset.
>
>