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do-rand-seed

 
Function
Summary

Calls the SSL function RAND_seed .

Package

comm

Signature

do-rand-seed

Arguments

do-rand-seed takes no arguments.

Values

do-rand-seed returns no values.

Description

The function do-rand-seed calls the SSL function RAND_seed with some suitable value, which is dependent in a non-trivial way on the current time, the history of the current process and the history of the machine it is running on.

If the machine that it runs on has the file /dev/urandom , do-rand-seed does nothing.

See also
attach-ssl

LispWorks Reference Manual - 23 Jul 2004

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