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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2011-05-17 14:07:26 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2011-05-17 14:07:26 (GMT)
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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
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--- 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. */