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| author | kib <kib@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-10-06 09:05:47 +0000 |
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| committer | kib <kib@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-10-06 09:05:47 +0000 |
| commit | 7f328b518395680f97b3c939719ab6e6b96081c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 16495a97a83866097c9c77a68928b7f1052f33ad | |
| parent | 3eea740c21607b62e9eba7995b1d33a20c05a6d5 (diff) | |
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Add cross-references to lrand48(3) and arc4random(3) from rand(3)
and random(3).
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch netch kiev ua>
MFC after: 1 week
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 1 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 index 9b24795..beb1443 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)rand.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 25, 1999 +.Dd October 6, 2010 .Dt RAND 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -100,7 +100,16 @@ provides the same functionality as A pointer to the context value .Fa ctx must be supplied by the caller. +.Pp +For better generator quality, use +.Xr random 3 +or +.Xr lrand48 3 . +Applications requiring cryptographic quality randomness should use +.Xr arc4random 3 . .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arc4random 3, +.Xr lrand48 3 , .Xr random 3 , .Xr random 4 .Sh STANDARDS diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index aacf6e3..c6502bf 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 @@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ detects that the state information has been garbled, error messages are printed on the standard error output. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr arc4random 3 , +.Xr lrand48 3 , .Xr rand 3 , .Xr srand 3 , .Xr random 4 |
