[luatex] tex.setrandomseed primitive missing in Lua

[Hans Hagen]

On 1/10/2019 12:15 AM, Henri Menke wrote:
> On 10/01/19 11:50 AM, Henri Menke wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> To set the random seed of the MP random number generator I have to use
>> the TeX command \setrandomseed.  I can't do it from the Lua level,
>> because tex.randomseed is read-only and tex.setrandomseed is nil.
>> Could you please expose this primitive in Lua?
> 
> I tried to work around this using
> 
> \directlua{
>    token.create("setrandomseed")
>    token.create(string.byte("1"))
>    token.expand()
>    print(tex.randomseed)
> }
> 
> but I only get ! Undefined control sequence.
tex.print("\\setrandomseed ....")


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