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Use a random number to seed the random number generator. Goodby, Rush

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Limbaugh.

This should have already worked properly if random(4) has been
initialized correctly, but it seems that this is frequently not the
case.  Instead, use the microsecond part of the current time as the
seed.
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Greg Lehey 2005-07-23 01:46:50 +00:00
parent a09ad79379
commit 8af732d13c
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=148325
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games/fortune/fortune/fortune.c
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@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ char *av[];
#ifdef OK_TO_WRITE_DISK
int fd;
#endif /* OK_TO_WRITE_DISK */
struct timeval now;
(void) setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
@ -183,7 +184,8 @@ char *av[];
exit(find_matches() != 0);
init_prob();
srandomdev();
gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
srandom(now.tv_usec);
do {
get_fort();
} while ((Short_only && fortlen() > SLEN) ||