Bug#537952: Use more random random seed than localtime

[Jonathan Yu]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Don Armstrong<don at donarmstrong.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>> > I believe the patch Don is about to send will require smaller
>> > changes. Having some conditional code would be nice so that it
>> > doesn't break 5.8 installs, but that's it. Then we forward it
>> > upstream and let them decide.
>>
>> Attached is the fairly trivial change to do this.
>
> Updated now to work on 32 bit architectures properly.
Sweet!

Thanks very much for the patch. I'll work on integrating it, though I
want to do what Damyan suggested and make sure Perl > 5.8 before doing
so (actually, I don't know if this is something ppport.h provides
backward compatibility for)
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