| random.3 (24153) | random.3 (24390) |
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| 1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 175 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 184functions appeared in 185.Bx 4.2 . 186.Sh BUGS 187.Pp 188About 2/3 the speed of 189.Xr rand 3 . 190.Pp 191The historical implementation used to have a very weak seeding; the | 1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 175 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 184functions appeared in 185.Bx 4.2 . 186.Sh BUGS 187.Pp 188About 2/3 the speed of 189.Xr rand 3 . 190.Pp 191The historical implementation used to have a very weak seeding; the |
| 192random sequence did not vary much with the seed. For compatibility 193reasons, this implementation has been made available until the 194next 195.Tn FreeBSD 196release via the functions 197.Fn orandom , 198.Fn osrandom , 199.Fn oinitstate 200and 201.Fn osetstate 202from the compatibility library, 203.Em libcompat . | 192random sequence did not vary much with the seed. |
| 204The current implementation employs a better pseudo-random number 205generator for the initial state calculation. | 193The current implementation employs a better pseudo-random number 194generator for the initial state calculation. |