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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/random.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index d3a3198ebfb..548c5aae7a8 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.12 2000/04/20 13:50:02 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.13 2001/06/09 01:41:59 assar Exp $ .\" .Dd April 19, 1991 .Dt RANDOM 3 @@ -81,16 +81,8 @@ For example, will produce a random binary value. .Pp -Unlike -.Xr srand , -.Fn srandom -does not return the old seed; the reason for this is that the amount of -state information used is much more than a single word. -(Two other routines are provided to deal with restarting/changing random -number generators). Like .Xr rand 3 , -however, .Fn random will by default produce a sequence of numbers that can be duplicated by calling @@ -162,8 +154,8 @@ it is initialized. With 256 bytes of state information, the period of the random number generator is greater than 2**69 which should be sufficient for most purposes. -.Sh AUTHOR -Earl T. Cohen +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Earl T. Cohen .Sh DIAGNOSTICS If .Fn initstate |