cvs commit: src/games/fortune/fortune fortune.c

Andrey Chernov ache at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Jul 23 01:55:21 GMT 2005


On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:46:50AM +0000, Greg Lehey wrote:
> grog        2005-07-23 01:46:50 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     games/fortune/fortune fortune.c 
>   Log:
>   Use a random number to seed the random number generator.  Goodby, Rush
>   Limbaugh.
>   
>   This should have already worked properly if random(4) has been
>   initialized correctly, but it seems that this is frequently not the
>   case.  Instead, use the microsecond part of the current time as the
>   seed.

It is already properly and truly randomly initialized, instead of any 
microseconds tricks.
Do you miss srandomdev(); here?

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