srandのデフォルトのシード

さらっと読むかぎり、/dev/urandomと時刻とpidと変数seedのアドレスをシードにいている模様。
S_ISCHRで何を判別しているんだろう?

static VALUE
random_seed()
{
    static int n = 0;
    struct timeval tv;
    int fd;
    struct stat statbuf;

    int seed_len;
    BDIGIT *digits;
    unsigned long *seed;
    NEWOBJ(big, struct RBignum);
    OBJSETUP(big, rb_cBignum, T_BIGNUM);

    seed_len = 4 * sizeof(long);
    big->sign = 1;
    big->len = seed_len / SIZEOF_BDIGITS + 1;
    digits = big->digits = ALLOC_N(BDIGIT, big->len);
    seed = (unsigned long *)big->digits;

    memset(digits, 0, big->len * SIZEOF_BDIGITS);

#ifdef S_ISCHR
    if ((fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY
#ifdef O_NONBLOCK
            |O_NONBLOCK
#endif
#ifdef O_NOCTTY
            |O_NOCTTY
#endif
#ifdef O_NOFOLLOW
            |O_NOFOLLOW
#endif
            )) >= 0) {
        if (fstat(fd, &statbuf) == 0 && S_ISCHR(statbuf.st_mode)) {
            read(fd, seed, seed_len);
        }
        close(fd);
    }
#endif

    gettimeofday(&tv, 0);
    seed[0] ^= tv.tv_usec;
    seed[1] ^= tv.tv_sec;
    seed[2] ^= getpid() ^ (n++ << 16);
    seed[3] ^= (unsigned long)&seed;

    /* set leading-zero-guard if need. */
    digits[big->len-1] = digits[big->len-2] <= 1 ? 1 : 0;

    return rb_big_norm((VALUE)big);
}