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| -rw-r--r-- | libtac/lib/magic.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libtac/lib/magic.c b/libtac/lib/magic.c index 5e27596..681c960 100644 --- a/libtac/lib/magic.c +++ b/libtac/lib/magic.c @@ -34,14 +34,12 @@ static int magic_initialised = 0; * magic_init - Initialize the magic number generator. * * Attempts to compute a random number seed which will not repeat. - * The current method uses the current hostid, current process ID - * and current time, currently. */ void magic_init() { struct stat statbuf; - long seed; + long seed = 0; struct timeval t; if (magic_initialised) @@ -56,7 +54,7 @@ magic_init() } } - // add the deterministic data in case urandom failed + // fallback gettimeofday(&t, NULL); seed ^= gethostid() ^ t.tv_sec ^ t.tv_usec ^ getpid(); |