tags 328269 fixed-upstream thanks Andries,
> Von: Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 07:35:30PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > This can be replaced by > > > > > > "FreeBSD adds a function > > > void sranddev(void); > > > that initializes the seed for rand() with a value obtained from > > > the /dev/random device." > > > > But why waste space on functions on other operating systems that Linux > > doesn't have? > > All Unix-like operating systems are rather similar. > It is better to describe the Linux situation and mention the > differences with other very similar systems than to just give > the Linux description. While in general I agree with this sentiment (but I think you were always more inclined to include wide coverage of other implementations than I am), in this particular case there seems little value in the existing text, and I'm unconvinced that modifying it as you suggest elsewhere results in text that really is valuable to the reader. My fix, for man-pages-2.08, is to simply remove the offending text. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/ and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
