in reply to Getting srand's seed

In this discussion an interesting question has been raised. How does perl generate its seed? Does anyone know?

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Re^2: Getting srand's seed
by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 10, 2008 at 12:53 UTC

    When in doubt just RTFS (search for Perl_seed) . . .

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