rtl_random_createPool explicit seeding with systemTime considered redundant?

[Thorsten Behrens]

Hi Stephan, dear fellow hackers,

there's a chunk of places in the code, where (cargo-culted?) a random
pool gets fed with current system time, presumably to seed it with
enough entropy:

    TimeValue aTime;
    osl_getSystemTime( &aTime );
    rtlRandomPool aRandomPool = rtl_random_createPool ();
    rtl_random_addBytes ( aRandomPool, &aTime, 8 );

Then again, initPool() in sal/rtl/random.cxx already does the same, so
that really looks redundant?

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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