I looked at php_combined_lcg() and saw that it uses LCG, it looks like a macro but 
I've found anywhere else in the source.
I looked at the source to view how session_id is generated (using seconds, 
microseconds, and php_combined_lcg -> standard/lcg.c)

Thanks in advance

Andrey Hristov
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derick Rethans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teodor Cimpoesu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug #14248: uniqid() is extremely slow (20ms per call)


> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Teodor Cimpoesu wrote:
> 
> > I guess it gets entropy from /dev/[u]random, but when it is exhausted it
> > cannot do much but to wait for more entropy.
> 
> Wrong guess, it does not. It gets it from time() and the php_combined_lcg
> (which is feeded by the the PID/thread id and some time value).
> 
> Derick
> 
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