Bug#537952: Use more random random seed than localtime

[Don Armstrong]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> I should also note that changing the patch to this:
> +void
> +set_default_seed(long time)
> +       PREINIT:
> +       long seed;
> +       CODE:
> +       seed = Perl_get_seed;
> +       setall(seed, seed);
> 
> Yielded the same error. Am I missing something about how to use setall()?

Yes. You're missing the modulus which is present in my second patch.


Don Armstrong

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