From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-11-14T00:56:21+09:00
Subject: Re: External entropy pool for random number generator

Hi,

In message "Re: External entropy pool for random number generator"
    on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:14:33 +0900, "Kirill Shutemov" <k.shutemov@gmail.com> writes:

|>   * why do we need to call srand every time?
|
|To make rand() not deterministic. The other way is modification
|genrand_int32() to use entropy pool directly. It's more careful, but
|it makes genrand_int32() ruby specific(code from  rb_f_rand() moves to
|genrand_int32()). Should I do it?

I still don't get it.  If you want real non-deterministic random
numbers and you have proper entropy pool, why do you need to use MT
pseudo random number generator?

							matz.