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diff --git a/man3/random.3 b/man3/random.3 index 7bc300d7ba..94f146a13d 100644 --- a/man3/random.3 +++ b/man3/random.3 @@ -156,16 +156,10 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe .ad .sp 1 .SH STANDARDS -POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD. +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD. .SH NOTES -The -.BR random () -function should not be used in multithreaded programs -where reproducible behavior is required. -Use -.BR random_r (3) -for that purpose. -.PP Random-number generation is a complex topic. .I Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing (William H.\& Press, Brian P.\& Flannery, Saul A.\& Teukolsky, @@ -178,6 +172,14 @@ in depth, see Chapter 3 (Random Numbers) in Donald E.\& Knuth's .IR "The Art of Computer Programming" , volume 2 (Seminumerical Algorithms), 2nd ed.; Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1981. +.SH CAVEATS +The +.BR random () +function should not be used in multithreaded programs +where reproducible behavior is required. +Use +.BR random_r (3) +for that purpose. .SH BUGS According to POSIX, .BR initstate () |