Tassilo Von Parseval wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 04:38:02PM -0800 John W. Krahn wrote: > > > > Download the source code for Perl if you don't already have it and have > > a look at the pp.c file. > > The actual seed is calculated in Perl_seed() in util.c. The calculation > of the seed itself is highly dependent on the platform used. It involves > various things, such as gettimeofday(2), the PID, a value read from a > random device such as /dev/urandom, the position of PL_stack_sp in > memory etc. For most cases it should be quite ok.
I did a "grep -i -r 'seed' *.c" and the only hit I got was in pp.c. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
