time(0L) - history of a misconception (was Re: SCO password generator)

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <1141 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>In article <588 at sherpa.UUCP> rac at sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius) writes:
>>	long seed = time(0L);
>	                 ^^--------- wrong
>	           time((long *)0);
>	                ^^^^^^^^^--- right
>Note that the argument to the time system call is a `long *', aka
>pointer to long. Repeat after me: POINTER to long.

On the other hand, if you have an ansi-conformant compiler, and a prototype
is in scope, then either solution will work properly.

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