Re: [Boost-users] [Random] Good Truly-Random Seed

-----Original Message----- On 21 April 2010 13:47, Marius wrote:

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May I suggest that boost should have a cross-platform function to so

this.

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time(NULL) is not random.

It does, in the form of random_device, though for some reason it seems the Windows implementation still hasn't happened.

For Windows, I think the GetTickCount Windows API function should be sufficient for a random seed. -- Bill --