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| author | assar <> | 2001-06-09 01:41:59 +0000 |
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| committer | assar <> | 2001-06-09 01:41:59 +0000 |
| commit | e48fbbe799cf5b7ff38a184af2aa7f3ce90f7f65 (patch) | |
| tree | 461691062c78d8323d4c88232dda2efb04b7d0ce | |
| parent | c13690753132d874488bb128d1c76d16d9dffb9d (diff) | |
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remove confusing comparison with srand (it does not return the old seed)
use .Sh AUTHORS and .An for author
| -rw-r--r-- | src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index d3a3198ebf..548c5aae7a 100644 --- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | |||
| @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ | |||
| 29 | .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF | 29 | .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF |
| 30 | .\" SUCH DAMAGE. | 30 | .\" SUCH DAMAGE. |
| 31 | .\" | 31 | .\" |
| 32 | .\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.12 2000/04/20 13:50:02 aaron Exp $ | 32 | .\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.13 2001/06/09 01:41:59 assar Exp $ |
| 33 | .\" | 33 | .\" |
| 34 | .Dd April 19, 1991 | 34 | .Dd April 19, 1991 |
| 35 | .Dt RANDOM 3 | 35 | .Dt RANDOM 3 |
| @@ -81,16 +81,8 @@ For example, | |||
| 81 | will produce a random binary | 81 | will produce a random binary |
| 82 | value. | 82 | value. |
| 83 | .Pp | 83 | .Pp |
| 84 | Unlike | ||
| 85 | .Xr srand , | ||
| 86 | .Fn srandom | ||
| 87 | does not return the old seed; the reason for this is that the amount of | ||
| 88 | state information used is much more than a single word. | ||
| 89 | (Two other routines are provided to deal with restarting/changing random | ||
| 90 | number generators). | ||
| 91 | Like | 84 | Like |
| 92 | .Xr rand 3 , | 85 | .Xr rand 3 , |
| 93 | however, | ||
| 94 | .Fn random | 86 | .Fn random |
| 95 | will by default produce a sequence of numbers that can be duplicated | 87 | will by default produce a sequence of numbers that can be duplicated |
| 96 | by calling | 88 | by calling |
| @@ -162,8 +154,8 @@ it is initialized. | |||
| 162 | With 256 bytes of state information, the period of the random number | 154 | With 256 bytes of state information, the period of the random number |
| 163 | generator is greater than 2**69 | 155 | generator is greater than 2**69 |
| 164 | which should be sufficient for most purposes. | 156 | which should be sufficient for most purposes. |
| 165 | .Sh AUTHOR | 157 | .Sh AUTHORS |
| 166 | Earl T. Cohen | 158 | .An Earl T. Cohen |
| 167 | .Sh DIAGNOSTICS | 159 | .Sh DIAGNOSTICS |
| 168 | If | 160 | If |
| 169 | .Fn initstate | 161 | .Fn initstate |