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random.3: Remove obsolete BUGS section

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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.

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Conrad Meyer 2019-04-22 16:29:34 +00:00
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@ -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.