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author | millert <> | 2014-11-25 17:40:38 +0000 |
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committer | millert <> | 2014-11-25 17:40:38 +0000 |
commit | f39ba67839922ff24eca2653bf4875bd487da399 (patch) | |
tree | 381564dfc5a613e450d67197a4242a9519eb98aa | |
parent | 85b059f3a82749da7feb8941525b0fae36b4bd12 (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.
-rw-r--r-- | src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index 4650d34c83..b3bc560ad3 100644 --- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | |||
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ | |||
25 | .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF | 25 | .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF |
26 | .\" SUCH DAMAGE. | 26 | .\" SUCH DAMAGE. |
27 | .\" | 27 | .\" |
28 | .\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.25 2014/07/18 06:20:36 jmc Exp $ | 28 | .\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.26 2014/11/25 17:40:38 millert Exp $ |
29 | .\" | 29 | .\" |
30 | .Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $ | 30 | .Dd $Mdocdate: November 25 2014 $ |
31 | .Dt RANDOM 3 | 31 | .Dt RANDOM 3 |
32 | .Os | 32 | .Os |
33 | .Sh NAME | 33 | .Sh NAME |
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ | |||
36 | .Nm srandomdev , | 36 | .Nm srandomdev , |
37 | .Nm initstate , | 37 | .Nm initstate , |
38 | .Nm setstate | 38 | .Nm setstate |
39 | .Nd better random number generator; routines for changing generators | 39 | .Nd pseudo-random number generator; routines for changing generators |
40 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | 40 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
41 | .In stdlib.h | 41 | .In stdlib.h |
42 | .Ft long | 42 | .Ft long |
@@ -186,5 +186,5 @@ functions appeared in | |||
186 | .Sh AUTHORS | 186 | .Sh AUTHORS |
187 | .An Earl T. Cohen | 187 | .An Earl T. Cohen |
188 | .Sh BUGS | 188 | .Sh BUGS |
189 | About 2/3 the speed of | 189 | The historical implementation used to have very weak seeding. |
190 | .Xr rand 3 . | 190 | As a result, the random sequence did not vary much with the seed. |