Re: [PATCH 2/2] Use urandom to get random seed

2011-09-27 Thread Andi Kleen
On 9/27/2011 4:24 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Andi Kleen wrote: if (!flag_random_seed) { + /* Try urandom first. Time of day is too likely to collide. */ + + int fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY); + read(fd,&random_seed, sizeof(random_seed)); +

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Use urandom to get random seed

2011-09-27 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Andi Kleen wrote: >if (!flag_random_seed) > { > + /* Try urandom first. Time of day is too likely to collide. */ > + > + int fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY); > + read(fd, &random_seed, sizeof(random_seed)); > + close(fd); There appear to be no