On 1/17/11 9:28 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
On 1/17/11 8:42 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
The random implementation seems a little harder, for a portable one, possible
implementations:
1) apr_generate_random_bytes()
On Unix, this opens DEV_RANDOM, which seems heavy for this issue.
2) apr_md5_init()
Hash the current time and lock file path would be good enough, then xor the
high 8 bytes into the low 8 bytes and then modulo 100ms.
Talking to myself here, I decided to go with a 32-bit FNV-1a implementation to
hash apr_time_now() each time apr_file_open(APR_EXCL) fails. Much cheaper than
an md5.
This code is in the public domain:
http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/fnv/
Any issues copying implementation into svn? From
http://isthe.com/chongo/src/fnv/fnv.h
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