On 02/04/2009 11:06 PM, Matthew Rushton wrote: > Hi, > I'm writing an apache module and need to generate a random number to handle > a request. > The random numbers must be unique across requests and thus across forks. My > problem is > coming up with a way to seed the random numbers in an efficient way. I > imagine I'll need to > use some combination of a timestamp and process/thread id. Perhaps this is > already handled by > apache or another module? What have other people done? That's it. Thanks in > advance. > -Matt
The following might be helpful to you: http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/1.3/group__apr__random.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_unique_id.html Regards Rüdiger
