2 * magic.c - PPP Magic Number routines.
4 * Copyright (c) 1989 Carnegie Mellon University.
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20 #pragma ident "%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI"
21 #define RCSID "$Id: magic.c,v 1.9 1999/08/13 06:46:15 paulus Exp $"
26 #include <sys/types.h>
32 #if !defined(lint) && !defined(_lint)
33 static const char rcsid
[] = RCSID
;
37 long mrand48
__P((void));
38 void srand48
__P((long));
42 * magic_init - Initialize the magic number generator.
44 * Attempts to compute a random number seed which will not repeat.
45 * The current method uses the current hostid, current process ID
46 * and current time, currently.
54 (void) gettimeofday(&t
, NULL
);
55 seed
= get_host_seed() ^ t
.tv_sec
^ t
.tv_usec
^ getpid();
60 * magic - Returns the next magic number.
65 return (u_int32_t
) mrand48();
70 * Substitute procedures for those systems which don't have
77 return (double)random() / (double)0x7fffffffL
; /* 2**31-1 */
90 srandom((int)seedval
);