Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, that appears to work quite well, as long as we seed it right; > starting with a consistent X₀ would be just as bad as trying them > sequentially, and choosing something that does not change several times > a second (such as time()) still makes it likely that multiple > invocations will choose the same first port. Probably, /dev/random as > first choice, falling back to by gettimeofday() where that's available. > I don't know what Windows would use.
Wget already contains high-resolution timer code for Windows; see src/ptimer.c.
