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Conrad Meyer c62ff2800b Deprecate sranddev(3) API 
It serves no useful purpose and wasn't as popular as its equally meritless
cousin, srandomdev(3).

Setting aside the problems with rand(3) in general, the problem with this
interface is that the seed isn't shared with the caller (other than by
attacking the output of the generator, which is trivial, but not a hallmark of
pleasant API design).  The (arguable) utility of rand(3) or random(3) is as a
semi-fast simulation generator which produces consistent results from a given
seed.  These are mutually at odd.  Furthermore, sometimes people got the
mistaken impression that a high quality random seed meant a weak generator like
rand(3) or random(3) could be used for things like cryptographic key
generation.  This is absolutely not so.

The API was never part of a standard and was not widely used in tree.  Existing
in-tree uses have all been removed.

Possible replacement in out of tree codebases:

	char buf[3];
	time_t t;

	time(t);
	strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%S", gmtime(&t));
	srand(atoi(buf));

Relnotes:	yes
2019-12-14 08:28:10 +00:00
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jemalloc Revert r354605: Update jemalloc to version 5.2.1. 2019-11-11 05:06:49 +00:00
_Exit.c
a64l.3
a64l.c
abort.3 Bump the date on man pages in r334306 2018-05-29 02:41:32 +00:00
abort.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
abs.3
abs.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
alloca.3
at_quick_exit.3
atexit.3
atexit.c Fix order of destructors between main binary and libraries. 2019-04-15 13:03:09 +00:00
atexit.h General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
atof.3
atof.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
atoi.3 atoi.3: bump .Dd 2018-06-13 09:07:24 +00:00
atoi.c libc: remove explicit cast NULL in atoi 2018-06-13 08:52:17 +00:00
atol.3
atol.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
atoll.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
bsearch_b.c
bsearch.3 bsearch.3: Improve the example. 2019-07-17 19:29:55 +00:00
bsearch.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
cxa_thread_atexit_impl.c Export __cxa_thread_atexit_impl as an alias for __cxa_thread_atexit. 2017-01-07 16:05:19 +00:00
cxa_thread_atexit.c Export __cxa_thread_atexit_impl as an alias for __cxa_thread_atexit. 2017-01-07 16:05:19 +00:00
div.3
div.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
exit.3 Bump the date on man pages in r334306 2018-05-29 02:41:32 +00:00
exit.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
getenv.3
getenv.c libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
getopt_long.3 getopt_long(3): Document behavior of leading characters in optstring 2018-08-12 00:08:14 +00:00
getopt_long.c getopt_long(3): fix case of malformed long opt 2019-01-04 03:13:24 +00:00
getopt.3
getopt.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
getsubopt.3
getsubopt.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
hcreate_r.c Replace implementation of hsearch() by one that scales. 2015-12-27 07:50:11 +00:00
hcreate.3 hcreate(3): fix the ERRORS section and bump .Dd 2017-02-07 02:32:49 +00:00
hcreate.c libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
hdestroy_r.c Replace implementation of hsearch() by one that scales. 2015-12-27 07:50:11 +00:00
heapsort_b.c
heapsort.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
hsearch_r.c Replace implementation of hsearch() by one that scales. 2015-12-27 07:50:11 +00:00
hsearch.h Replace implementation of hsearch() by one that scales. 2015-12-27 07:50:11 +00:00
imaxabs.3
imaxabs.c libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
imaxdiv.3
imaxdiv.c libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
insque.3
insque.c
l64a.c Let l64a() properly null terminate its result. 2016-05-26 20:55:15 +00:00
labs.3
labs.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
ldiv.3
ldiv.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
llabs.3
llabs.c libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
lldiv.3
lldiv.c libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
lsearch.3 Fix markup on "\n" in printf so it renders correctly. 2016-04-17 18:25:34 +00:00
lsearch.c
Makefile.inc Deprecate sranddev(3) API 2019-12-14 08:28:10 +00:00
memory.3
merge.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
mergesort_b.c
ptsname.3
ptsname.c libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
qsort_r.c
qsort.3 Don't put multiple names on a single .Nm line. This fixes apropos(1) 2018-04-17 09:05:46 +00:00
qsort.c libc qsort(3): stop aliasing. 2018-06-10 17:54:44 +00:00
quick_exit.3 C++17 requires quick_exit(3) to be async-signal safe. 2017-11-04 10:52:58 +00:00
quick_exit.c libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
radixsort.3
radixsort.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
rand.3 Deprecate sranddev(3) API 2019-12-14 08:28:10 +00:00
rand.c Deprecate sranddev(3) API 2019-12-14 08:28:10 +00:00
random.3 random.3: Remove obsolete BUGS section 2019-04-22 16:29:34 +00:00
random.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
reallocarray.3
reallocarray.c
reallocf.3
reallocf.c Regularize my copyright notice 2019-12-04 16:56:11 +00:00
realpath.3
realpath.c Fix -Wsign-compare warnings in realpath.c 2019-06-26 15:43:20 +00:00
remque.c
set_constraint_handler_s.3 Provide set_constraint_handler_s(3) man page. 2018-08-19 14:39:57 +00:00
set_constraint_handler_s.c Improve standard compliance for memset_s() and abort_handler_s(). 2017-08-12 15:18:17 +00:00
strfmon.3
strfmon.c Allow multi-byte thousands separators in strfmon(3) 2018-12-19 22:57:47 +00:00
strtod.3
strtoimax.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
strtol.3
strtol.c Move strtold wrapper from strtol.c to its own strtold.c. This code 2018-01-31 03:05:14 +00:00
strtold.c Use standard 2-clause license where copyright is held by the FreeBSD Foundation 2018-02-02 16:47:32 +00:00
strtoll.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
strtonum.3
strtonum.c
strtoq.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
strtoul.3
strtoul.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
strtoull.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
strtoumax.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
strtouq.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
Symbol.map Deprecate sranddev(3) API 2019-12-14 08:28:10 +00:00
system.3
system.c General further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags. 2017-11-20 19:49:47 +00:00
tdelete.c Improve typing of POSIX search tree functions. 2016-10-13 18:25:40 +00:00
tfind.c Improve typing of POSIX search tree functions. 2016-10-13 18:25:40 +00:00
tsearch_path.h Let tsearch()/tdelete() use an AVL tree. 2015-12-22 18:12:11 +00:00
tsearch.3 Follow up to r320992, properly escape the backslash so it renders properly. 2017-07-14 17:27:15 +00:00
tsearch.c Improve typing of POSIX search tree functions. 2016-10-13 18:25:40 +00:00
twalk.c Improve typing of POSIX search tree functions. 2016-10-13 18:25:40 +00:00