Of the use of unpredictableSeed

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d]

On 03/06/2017 05:19 PM, sarn wrote:
> On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 10:12:09 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>> Excuse me if I'm asking a trivial question. Why not just seed it from
>> /dev/urandom? (or equivalent on non-Linux platforms. I know at least
>> Windows has an equivalent).
>>
>> Shachar
>
> One reason is that /dev/urandom isn't always available, e.g., in a
> chroot.  Sure, these are corner cases, but it's annoying when stuff like
> this doesn't "just work".

I don't claim to be any sort of linux expert or anything, but doesn't 
chroot have a reputation for being a bit of a finicky, leaky abstraction 
anyway? I haven't really used them, but that's been my understanding...?