svn commit: r272918 - stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk

[Matthew Seaman]

On 11/10/2014 07:43, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:18:45PM +0000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>> Author: pfg
>> Date: Fri Oct 10 23:18:44 2014
>> New Revision: 272918
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/272918
>>
>> Log:
>>   MFC	r271879:
>>   awk: Use random(3) instead of rand(3)
>>   
>>   While none of them is considered even near to cryptographic
>>   level, random(3) is a better random generator than rand(3).
>>   
>>   Use random(3) for awk as is done in other systems.
>>   
>>   PR:		193147
>>
>> Modified:
>>   stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1
>>   stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/main.c
>>   stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/run.c
>> Directory Properties:
>>   stable/10/   (props changed)
>>
>> Modified: stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1	Fri Oct 10 22:18:09 2014	(r272917)
>> +++ stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1	Fri Oct 10 23:18:44 2014	(r272918)
>> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ or of
>>  if no argument.
>>  .TP
>>  .B rand
>> -random number on (0,1)
>> +random number on [0,1)
> --------------------^
> 
> The above looks like a typo

It's math-speak for a range of numbers which spans from exactly zero to
arbitrarily close to (but not exactly) one[*].  Probably a bit too
specialised to be used without explanation in a man page like this.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

[*] Or is it the other way round?  I can never remember.

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

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