Subject: bin/26613: Documentation bug with "man 1 shuffle"
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <mac@ns.culver.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/11/2004 05:45:12
>Number: 26613
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: remove "bugs" section of this man page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 11 06:14:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Release: NetBSD 1.6.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD NS.Culver.Net 1.6.1 NetBSD 1.6.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Apr 8 12:05:52 UTC 2003 autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/netbsd-1-6/i386/OBJ/autobuild/netbsd-1-6/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
In the documentatino:
"BUGS
The random number generator isn't that great, and thus the permutations
often aren't that great."
Acutally, random() is used, which is much better than rand() (which, I suppose,
was used originally)
>How-To-Repeat:
man 1 shuffle
>Fix:
Remove "BUGS" section
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: