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| author | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-05-29 02:53:52 +0000 |
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| committer | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-05-29 02:53:52 +0000 |
| commit | 8fe640108653f13042f1b15213769e338aa524f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 91f5675a7c792e61d68635707501027daa3f566f /lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 | |
| parent | 97f64b711efa9ff0011bef5d46cf9645638a38f9 (diff) | |
| parent | f3726238c8e8206eb1df4cfaf3f00947ceba3cce (diff) | |
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Merge from head@222434.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 index 9b24795..3eb1a1d 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 |
