Re: Re: Crypt salts not random.. (fwd)

From: Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:04:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Crypt salts not random.. (fwd)
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: >At 09:42 PM 4/29/2001 +0200, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >>This is the line in question: >> >>php_srand(time(0) * getpid() * (php_combined_lcg() * 10000.0)); >> >>This is now (in my patch) in RINIT and thus it is a different pid >>it doesn't matter if the RINIT happens the same second.. >>Or did I misunderstood something? And I know it works now. :) >>And it didn't work before. As the PID was always the same like Andi said. >> >>I attached the patch in case you missed it before.. > >It's OK but in multi-threaded mode it should use "(long) tsrm_thread_id()" >because getpid() will usually be the same. I hope the case is good enough >and will work in all multi-threaded environments. Ehem..answer to my wondering: It's already done in php_combined_lcg() --Jani

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