From 5f1c956eb0239b15fc5ec5cebd4194dfb7b2a8ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Dunbar <daniel@zuster.org>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 20:38:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [Support] Fix sys::GetRandomNumber() to always use a high
 quality seed.

llvm-svn: 156414
---
 llvm/lib/Support/Unix/Process.inc | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Support/Unix/Process.inc b/llvm/lib/Support/Unix/Process.inc
index dd855b0d3ff8..4e1bd5db142c 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Support/Unix/Process.inc
+++ b/llvm/lib/Support/Unix/Process.inc
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
 #include "Unix.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/Hashing.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/TimeValue.h"
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TIME_H
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #endif
@@ -300,13 +302,21 @@ const char *Process::ResetColor() {
 
 #if !defined(HAVE_ARC4RANDOM)
 static unsigned GetRandomNumberSeed() {
-  unsigned seed = ::time(NULL); // FIXME: It might not provide unique seed.
-  FILE *RandomSource = ::fopen("/dev/urandom", "r");
-  if (RandomSource) {
-    ::fread((void *)&seed, sizeof(seed), 1, RandomSource);
+  // Attempt to get the initial seed from /dev/urandom, if possible.
+  if (FILE *RandomSource = ::fopen("/dev/urandom", "r")) {
+    unsigned seed;
+    int count = ::fread((void *)&seed, sizeof(seed), 1, RandomSource);
     ::fclose(RandomSource);
+
+    // Return the seed if the read was successful.
+    if (count == 1)
+      return seed;
   }
-  return seed;
+
+  // Otherwise, swizzle the current time and the process ID to form a reasonable
+  // seed.
+  TimeValue Now = llvm::TimeValue::now();
+  return hash_combine(Now.seconds(), Now.nanoseconds(), ::getpid());
 }
 #endif