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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-06-10 06:53:45 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-06-10 06:53:45 +0000 |
commit | 2fb029c933fea996f7a6b8bc96cb2513a49b1463 (patch) | |
tree | 52a94cd8a18b6f5baefc26cf867ea55cee998699 /share/man | |
parent | 2f4dcf2de37bda468a822cddb711f6e30ba2f82e (diff) |
fix previous;
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/idgen.9 | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/idgen.9 b/share/man/man9/idgen.9 index 3f4b6c5d513..40668e2c1ba 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/idgen.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/idgen.9 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: idgen.9,v 1.1 2008/06/09 22:50:12 djm Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: idgen.9,v 1.2 2008/06/10 06:53:44 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2008 Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> .\" All rights reserved. @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 9 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 10 2008 $ .Dt IDGEN 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn idgen32 -functions provide a facility to generate a stream of 32 bit numbers +functions provide a facility to generate a stream of 32-bit numbers that are strongly unpredictable and have a repetition cycle close to 2^32. Such numbers are useful as protocol identifiers where there are negative @@ -46,9 +46,8 @@ The function returns a new ID in host byte order. Note that this function will never return 0 as it often has a special meaning in network protocols. -.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr random 9 , +.Xr random 9 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm |