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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-10 06:53:45 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-10 06:53:45 +0000
commit2fb029c933fea996f7a6b8bc96cb2513a49b1463 (patch)
tree52a94cd8a18b6f5baefc26cf867ea55cee998699 /share/man
parent2f4dcf2de37bda468a822cddb711f6e30ba2f82e (diff)
fix previous;
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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