Fix typing of srandom() and initstate().

POSIX requires that these functions have an unsigned int for their first
argument; not an unsigned long.

My reasoning is that we can safely change these fun

Fix typing of srandom() and initstate().

POSIX requires that these functions have an unsigned int for their first
argument; not an unsigned long.

My reasoning is that we can safely change these functions without
breaking the ABI. As far as I know, our supported architectures either
use registers for passing function arguments that are at least as big as
long (e.g., amd64), or int and long are of the same size (e.g., i386).

Reviewed by: ache
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6644

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Reflect error indication according to POSIX and what those functions
currently do.

Adjust wording slightly to emphasize that random(3) should not be used for
any applications which need unpredictable random numbers, not merely those
which are cryptographic in nature.

If you work f

Adjust wording slightly to emphasize that random(3) should not be used for
any applications which need unpredictable random numbers, not merely those
which are cryptographic in nature.

If you work for a lottery and you're using random(3) to select the winning
numbers, please let me know.

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Renumber clauses to reduce diffs to other versions

NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Android's Bionic number the clauses 1 through 3,
so follow suit to make comparison easier.

Replace access to /dev/random with the kernel pseudo-random number
source sysctl(KERN_ARND) and remove the fallback code.

Obtained from: OpenBSD
Reviewed by: secteam
MFC after: 1 month

Add the same warning to rand48(3) as to rand(3) and random(3).

MFC after: 3 days

Bump dates.

Reminded by: bz@

Add a prominent warning about these functions' unsuitability for
cryptographic purposes, and recommend using arc4random(3) instead.

Add cross-references to lrand48(3) and arc4random(3) from rand(3)
and random(3).

Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch netch kiev ua>
MFC after: 1 week

Per Regents of the University of Calfornia letter, remove advertising
clause.

# If I've done so improperly on a file, please let me know.

Sort sections.

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.

Cross-reference arc4random(3).

Fix grammar bogons.

MFC after: 3 days

Move to using .In instead of .Fd #include <> for include mark-up.

Inspired by comment from: dd

Remove whitespace at EOL.

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.

mdoc(7) police: remove extraneous .Pp before and/or after .Sh.

urandom(4) -> random(4)

PR: 27858
Submitted by: Yoshihiro Koya <[email protected]>
Approved by: markm

Introduce ".Lb" macro to libc manpages.

More libraries manpages updates following.

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage

Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

.\" $Id$
.\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by: bde

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.Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS. Use .An/.Aq

Instead of copying fallback code over and over in each program,
implement (better) falback code inside srandomdev() itself.
Change return type from int to void (binary compatibility surprisely
achiev

Instead of copying fallback code over and over in each program,
implement (better) falback code inside srandomdev() itself.
Change return type from int to void (binary compatibility surprisely
achieved). Userland code will be changed soon.

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Remove orand* code as promised for the next release