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authorXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2013-04-02 23:41:20 +0000
committerXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2013-04-02 23:41:20 +0000
commit12a6865090ad2f88c671256c53a8fed4d5424424 (patch)
treeef793ecd9ffc2cadc85db8ff811a6c2015c943cd /lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
parentc6a453a430c67cc9d2d796721c1cc34b1d619dca (diff)
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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/random.36
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
index 4817440ec0b2..a1e585bbd24a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)random.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 4, 2012
+.Dd April 2, 2013
.Dt RANDOM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ as the seed.
.Pp
The
.Fn srandomdev
-routine initializes a state array using data from
-.Xr random 4 .
+routine initializes a state array using
+pseudo-random numbers obtained from the kernel.
Note that this particular seeding
procedure can generate states which are impossible to reproduce by
calling