On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:58:24PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> [Andries Brower CCed since he may have written the original text]
>
> > Package: manpages-dev
> > Version: 2.02-2
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > Man page for rand(3) claims the following:
> >
> > FreeBSD adds a function
> >
> > void sranddev(void);
> >
> > that initializes the seed for their bad random generator rand()
> > with
> > a value obtained from their good random generator random().
> > Strange.
This can be replaced by
"FreeBSD adds a function
void sranddev(void);
that initializes the seed for rand() with a value obtained from
the /dev/random device."
Andries
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