From 680defa7cefe932be1a4d3f3bf97c6e5d2eb63e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Conrad Meyer Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:29:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index 9eea9932c8bd..b42e5d3d2a2e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 @@ -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.