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From: jmwojtal@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Wojo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: I'm confused about this
Keywords: getpid(), srand
Message-ID: <3945@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 90 14:43:06 GMT
Reply-To: jmwojtal@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Wojo)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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I got this C program and this part I don't understand:

int   getpid();
long  now;

now = time(&now) / rand();
srand(getpid() + (int)((now >> 16) + now + time(&now)));

What does "srand" do to be exact?  It doesn't bring a value back?
"getpid()" is declared, but the function is not in the program.



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