rpms/man-pages/devel man-pages-2.43-rand.patch,NONE,1.1

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Author: varekova

Update of /cvs/dist/rpms/man-pages/devel
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Added Files:
	man-pages-2.43-rand.patch 
Log Message:
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man-pages-2.43-rand.patch:
 rand.3 |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- NEW FILE man-pages-2.43-rand.patch ---
--- man-pages-2.43/man3/rand.3.pom	2007-02-15 09:53:56.000000000 +0100
+++ man-pages-2.43/man3/rand.3	2007-02-15 10:08:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -101,6 +101,16 @@
 The versions of \fBrand\fP() and \fBsrand\fP() in the Linux C Library use
 the same random number generator as \fBrandom\fP() and \fBsrandom\fP(), so
 the lower-order bits should be as random as the higher-order bits.
+.PP
+Most modern
+.BR rand()
+functions, including the one provided on Linux systems,
+do not suffer from this problem, so using expressions like
+.RS
+rand() % 10
+.RE
+works fine.
+.PP
 However, on older
 .BR rand ()
 implementations, and on current implementations on different systems,