Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:29:34 +0000 (UTC) From: Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r346566 - head/lib/libc/stdlib Message-ID: <201904221629.x3MGTYVQ006329@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: cem Date: Mon Apr 22 16:29:34 2019 New Revision: 346566 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/346566 Log: random.3: Remove obsolete BUGS section Relative performance to rand(3) is sort of irrelevant; they do different things and a user with sensitivity to RNG performance won't use libc random(3) anyway. The historical note about bad seeding is long obsolete, referring to a 1996 or earlier version of FreeBSD. Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon Modified: head/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 Modified: head/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 Mon Apr 22 16:26:39 2019 (r346565) +++ head/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 Mon Apr 22 16:29:34 2019 (r346566) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)random.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 15, 2019 +.Dd April 22, 2019 .Dt RANDOM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -187,11 +187,3 @@ functions appeared in .Bx 4.2 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Earl T. Cohen -.Sh BUGS -About 2/3 the speed of -.Xr rand 3 . -.Pp -The historical implementation used to have a very weak seeding; the -random sequence did not vary much with the seed. -The current implementation employs a better pseudo-random number -generator for the initial state calculation.
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