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| author |   millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2014-11-25 17:40:38 +0000 |
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| committer | millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2014-11-25 17:40:38 +0000 |
| commit | 224c67f89b14f144df66cf369a89ee29b28b212d (patch) | |
| tree | 53e89873c851dfa31fa5123e2e98700be01326cc /lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | |
| parent | Warn people to use arc4random() in DESCRIPTION so they see it using (diff) | |
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Don't describe random() as "better".
Remove the bug about rand() being faster.
Add a bug about historical implementations seeding very poorly.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/random.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index 4650d34c833..b3bc560ad3c 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.25 2014/07/18 06:20:36 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.26 2014/11/25 17:40:38 millert Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 25 2014 $ .Dt RANDOM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .Nm srandomdev , .Nm initstate , .Nm setstate -.Nd better random number generator; routines for changing generators +.Nd pseudo-random number generator; routines for changing generators .Sh SYNOPSIS .In stdlib.h .Ft long @@ -186,5 +186,5 @@ functions appeared in .Sh AUTHORS .An Earl T. Cohen .Sh BUGS -About 2/3 the speed of -.Xr rand 3 . +The historical implementation used to have very weak seeding. +As a result, the random sequence did not vary much with the seed. |