2 * magic.c - PPP Magic Number routines.
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20 #define RCSID "$Id: magic.c,v 1.9 1999/08/13 06:46:15 paulus Exp $"
24 #include <sys/types.h>
30 static const char rcsid
[] = RCSID
;
32 extern long mrand48
__P((void));
33 extern void srand48
__P((long));
36 * magic_init - Initialize the magic number generator.
38 * Attempts to compute a random number seed which will not repeat.
39 * The current method uses the current hostid, current process ID
40 * and current time, currently.
48 gettimeofday(&t
, NULL
);
49 seed
= get_host_seed() ^ t
.tv_sec
^ t
.tv_usec
^ getpid();
54 * magic - Returns the next magic number.
59 return (u_int32_t
) mrand48();
64 * Substitute procedures for those systems which don't have
71 return (double)random() / (double)0x7fffffffL
; /* 2**31-1 */
84 srandom((int)seedval
);