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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-13 20:46:52 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-13 20:46:52 +0000
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@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ In order to get reproducible behavior in a threaded
application, this state must be made explicit.
The function
.BR rand_r ()
-is supplied with a pointer to an unsigned int, to be used as state.
+is supplied with a pointer to an
+.IR "unsigned int" ,
+to be used as state.
This is a very small amount of state, so this function will be a weak
pseudo-random generator.
Try