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| author | Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-10-06 09:05:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-10-06 09:05:47 +0000 |
| commit | 866dcc94625d9f09f3df85a630b6b5a8d2d50852 (patch) | |
| tree | 16495a97a83866097c9c77a68928b7f1052f33ad /lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3 | |
| parent | 49f4ceab51371c9824d4fb49197e7ca13dabb97e (diff) | |
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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 9b247959f5333..beb144325a92b 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 |