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authorAndrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-29 19:55:03 +0000
committerAndrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-29 19:55:03 +0000
commita080f5787d7f8911e04c768af1136b03190430bc (patch)
treeb3aa3524572906b3ee9c43f59080615c8231ea04 /lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
parentab9b932c99ab56d74522baee8c7b3414fa17199b (diff)
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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
index bced4aa9b52d7..21950846d47d9 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
@@ -189,17 +189,6 @@ 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. For compatibility
-reasons, this implementation has been made available until the
-next
-.Tn FreeBSD
-release via the functions
-.Fn orandom ,
-.Fn osrandom ,
-.Fn oinitstate
-and
-.Fn osetstate
-from the compatibility library,
-.Em libcompat .
+random sequence did not vary much with the seed.
The current implementation employs a better pseudo-random number
generator for the initial state calculation.