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author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2011-05-17 14:07:26 (GMT) |
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committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2011-05-17 14:07:26 (GMT) |
commit | e1b0a11dd471e1593ade56897185a9d4dd2e0857 (patch) | |
tree | b0f1efae3ec53531386f148ce75098e40d2b1e96 /Source/cmSystemTools.h | |
parent | a77dfb6d64b24737167e4a0312fb842544f27961 (diff) | |
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Improve string(RANDOM) default seed
The naive time(0) seed is unique only within one second. Instead try to
read a real source of entropy and otherwise fall back to a combination
of the process id and high-resolution time.
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diff --git a/Source/cmSystemTools.h b/Source/cmSystemTools.h index 6f9147c..78b9abf 100644 --- a/Source/cmSystemTools.h +++ b/Source/cmSystemTools.h @@ -402,6 +402,9 @@ public: static bool FileTimeGet(const char* fname, cmSystemToolsFileTime* t); static bool FileTimeSet(const char* fname, cmSystemToolsFileTime* t); + /** Random seed generation. */ + static unsigned int RandomSeed(); + /** Find the directory containing the running executable. Save it in a global location to be queried by GetExecutableDirectory later. */ |