start of a major rewrite

sorting.c

@@ -117,18 +117,21 @@ int sort_random(const void *file0, const void *file1){
 	if (!(((file*)file0)->file_type & FILE_TYPE_DIR) && (((file*)file1)->file_type & FILE_TYPE_DIR)) {
 			return 1;
 	}
-	time_t num = ((time_t)&sort_random) + (time_t)seed + getpid();
+	/* seed is the only value that actually changes whenever this funcion is called.
+	 * seed only updates when the order_by binding is executed.
+	 * this means that the random output only changes on the command of the user, and not SETTINGS_RELOAD_DIR_DELTA, this is intentional.
+	 * well the other stuff like file sizes and file count in a dir may also change, but this needs user intervention too.
+	 * that is unless the user decides to sort random in /var/log or something, which begs the question: why would you do that?
+	 */
+	time_t num = (((time_t)&sort_random) + (time_t)seed) ^ (((file*)file0)->file_size + ((file*)file1)->file_size);
 	int i;
-	for (i = 1; i < (((time_t)&seed)%10); i++) {
-		num += getpid() / seed;
-		num ^= num << ((((time_t)seed)%11)+i);
-		num += ((file*)file0)->file_size;
-		num ^= num >> ((((time_t)seed)%7)+i);
-		num -= ((file*)file1)->file_size;
+	for (i = 1; i < (((time_t)&getpid)%3); i++) {
+		num ^= num << ((((time_t)&file0)%27)+i);
+		num ^= num >> ((((time_t)&file1)%18)+i);
+		num ^= ((time_t)&getpid) ^ (((time_t)&getpid) >> ((time_t)getpid())%10);
 	}
 
-	/*printf("%ld\n", ((num & (3 << seed%16)) >> seed%16) - 1);*/
-	return (((num & (3 << seed%32)) >> seed%32) - 1);
+	return (((num & (3 << seed%16)) >> seed%16) - 1);
 	/*return ((num%3) - 1);*/
 
 }