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| author | Clint Adams <clint@users.sourceforge.net> | 2002-02-21 13:43:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Clint Adams <clint@users.sourceforge.net> | 2002-02-21 13:43:00 +0000 |
| commit | d1f65a53bbc55d9f005db9757ec200bdb29fbd69 (patch) | |
| tree | b5b8b8b42f6fc03abf3434fe44c19cad440799dd | |
| parent | f2da4d4ed816ee0cb1a397be4fc946fcbc464972 (diff) | |
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16688: clarify the pseudo-randomness of RANDOM.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/params.yo | 7 |
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 86e4bf328..9bd658884 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-02-21 Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org> + + * 16688: Doc/Zsh/params.yo: clarify the pseudo-randomness of + RANDOM. + 2002-02-20 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org> * unposted: Completion/Unix/Command/_pine: Fix sed expression to diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo index fb83863a1..e389a6449 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo @@ -574,9 +574,14 @@ and whenever the directory changes. ) vindex(RANDOM) item(tt(RANDOM) <S>)( -A random integer from 0 to 32767, newly generated each time +A pseudo-random integer from 0 to 32767, newly generated each time this parameter is referenced. The random number generator can be seeded by assigning a numeric value to tt(RANDOM). + +The values of tt(RANDOM) form an intentionally-repeatable pseudo-random +sequence; subshells that reference tt(RANDOM) will result +in identical pseudo-random values unless the value of tt(RANDOM) is +referenced or seeded in the parent shell in between subshell invocations. ) vindex(SECONDS) item(tt(SECONDS) <S>)( |