srand();
As of the CVS version of PHP, if you leave the seed out, the rand
implementation will autogenerate it for you (it really wasn't that
hard beforehand, but...)
I'm currently debating whether seeding at startup is a good idea,
because alot of scripts don't
* Tony Reed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010921 10:26]:
:On UNIX we could seed rand() with /dev/urandom, else we could use time of
:day. (Any other suggestions would be welcome.)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
You can pick up as many random bytes as you want; usually use a 16-bit
INT as a
That's not the point. If PHP seeds the random number generator at MINIT
time, with a pretty good random seed it will save a lot of work for
devlopers tying to use rand() to come up with a good random number.
As it is now, they need some sort of flag that indicates that they have
seeded the
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's not the point. If PHP seeds the random number generator at MINIT
time, with a pretty good random seed it will save a lot of work for
devlopers tying to use rand() to come up with a good random number.
As it is now, they need some sort of
