NAME

Config::Generator::Random - Config::Generator pseudo-random support

DESCRIPTION

This module eases the generation of pseudo-random "data". The goal is to be able to generate random but reproducible data, for instance to smear times in crontabs.

The initial seed usually comes from a file named random.bin that can be created with something like:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=random.bin bs=512 count=1

Then, modules can use the random_seed() function to make sure that what they generate is different from what other modules generate.

Finally, modules can use the random_integer() function to generate reproducible pseudo-random integers.

FUNCTIONS

This module provides the following functions (none of them being exported by default):

random_init([PATH])

initialize the pseudo-random generator with the content of the given file or by using a file named random.bin if it can be located via the usual include path (the @IncPath variable of the Config::Generator module)

random_integer(N, DATA...)

return a pseudo-random integer between 0 and N-1, using the given DATA for additional seeding

random_seed(DATA)

add the given DATA to the initial seed used by the pseudo-random generator

AUTHOR

Lionel Cons http://cern.ch/lionel.cons

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