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ref: 80aa8bafb1d20bc0b2fea6b5c928db58a93c851f
parent: 916ad912980d1890c98c3d1d7576b57a017b71bf
author: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
date: Mon May 23 07:15:39 EDT 2005

I'm sick of `--generate' giving the same answers if you run it twice
in one second. Switched the Unix get_random_seed() to using
gettimeofday() rather than time().

[originally from svn r5837]

--- a/gtk.c
+++ b/gtk.c
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@
 
 void get_random_seed(void **randseed, int *randseedsize)
 {
-    time_t *tp = snew(time_t);
-    time(tp);
-    *randseed = (void *)tp;
-    *randseedsize = sizeof(time_t);
+    struct timeval *tvp = snew(struct timeval);
+    gettimeofday(tvp, NULL);
+    *randseed = (void *)tvp;
+    *randseedsize = sizeof(struct timeval);
 }
 
 void frontend_default_colour(frontend *fe, float *output)