2 * magic.c - PPP Magic Number routines.
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43 #define RCSID "$Id: magic.c,v 1.11 2003/06/11 23:56:26 paulus Exp $"
48 #include <sys/types.h>
54 static const char rcsid
[] = RCSID
;
56 extern long mrand48
__P((void));
57 extern void srand48
__P((long));
60 * magic_init - Initialize the magic number generator.
62 * Attempts to compute a random number seed which will not repeat.
63 * The current method uses the current hostid, current process ID
64 * and current time, currently.
72 gettimeofday(&t
, NULL
);
73 seed
= get_host_seed() ^ t
.tv_sec
^ t
.tv_usec
^ getpid();
78 * magic - Returns the next magic number.
83 return (u_int32_t
) mrand48();
87 * random_bytes - Fill a buffer with random bytes.
90 random_bytes(unsigned char *buf
, int len
)
94 for (i
= 0; i
< len
; ++i
)
95 buf
[i
] = mrand48() >> 24;
100 * Substitute procedures for those systems which don't have
107 return (double)random() / (double)0x7fffffffL
; /* 2**31-1 */
120 srandom((int)seedval
);