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    If we can't open /dev/urandom and read the desired number of words, · 8f50683d
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    silently revert to initializing to the random state from the current
    time.
    
    From Ole Rohne via cmucl-imp.  This works around a problem on one of
    his machines where /dev/urandom isn't what we think it is.  We still
    lose if /dev/urandom returns words that aren't random enough.  Oh
    well.
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    If we can't open /dev/urandom and read the desired number of words,
    toy authored
    silently revert to initializing to the random state from the current
    time.
    
    From Ole Rohne via cmucl-imp.  This works around a problem on one of
    his machines where /dev/urandom isn't what we think it is.  We still
    lose if /dev/urandom returns words that aren't random enough.  Oh
    well.