in reply to Poor randomness with File::Temp and fork().
Thanks for all the replies.
I must admit, I had overlooked using the template or suffix options that File::Temp offers by default.
I do have calls to rand in other parts of the code (and calls to File::Temp prior to the fork()s), but I was just a little surprised that exactly the same sequences were occurring across so many processes.
dws suggests that calling srand in each child will re-seed the rand function - I'll give that one a shot too, although I did find the warning in the perldoc for 5.6.1 a little concerning:
Do not call srand multiple times in your program unless you know exactly what you're doing and why you're doing it....and I wasn't completely sure what I was doing :-)
The docs with 5.8.x aren't quite so stern.
Cheers,
BazB.
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