{
if (!flag_random_seed)
{
- /* Get some more or less random data. */
+ /* Try urandom first. Time of day is too likely to collide.
+ In case of any error we just use the local tick. */
+
+ int fd = open ("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd >= 0)
+ {
+ read (fd, &random_seed, sizeof (random_seed));
+ close (fd);
+ }
+
+ /* Now get the tick anyways */
#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
{
struct timeval tv;