svn commit: r213773 - stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib

Konstantin Belousov kib at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 13 11:39:38 UTC 2010


Author: kib
Date: Wed Oct 13 11:39:36 2010
New Revision: 213773
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/213773

Log:
  MFC r213476:
  Add cross-references to lrand48(3) and arc4random(3) from rand(3)
  and random(3).
  
  MFC r213477:
  Missed space.

Modified:
  stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3
  stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/lib/libc/   (props changed)
  stable/8/lib/libc/locale/   (props changed)
  stable/8/lib/libc/stdtime/   (props changed)
  stable/8/lib/libc/sys/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3	Wed Oct 13 11:38:24 2010	(r213772)
+++ stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.3	Wed Oct 13 11:39:36 2010	(r213773)
@@ -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

Modified: stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3	Wed Oct 13 11:38:24 2010	(r213772)
+++ stable/8/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3	Wed Oct 13 11:39:36 2010	(r213773)
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ detects that the state information has b
 messages are printed on the standard error output.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr arc4random 3 ,
+.Xr lrand48 3 ,
 .Xr rand 3 ,
 .Xr srand 3 ,
 .Xr random 4


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