unpredictableSeed

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 03/03/2013 10:06 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Maybe it would make sense to use /dev/random where available? (The
> problem is that /dev/random can block. On small embedded systems
> without monitor/mice/keyboard this can happen easily)

I suppose theoretically you shouldn't be calling /dev/random many times -- only 
each time you spawn a thread within which pseudo-random numbers are being 
generated -- and in an embedded context, this ought to happen rarely, no?

But from googling around I see that /dev/random can block fairly quickly, after 
only a handful of numbers :-(

Is something equivalent available on Windows?