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authorLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2014-02-24 16:45:04 +0100
committerLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2014-02-24 16:45:04 +0100
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* lukas/ose/master/OTP-11334: (71 commits) erts: Fix unix efile assert ose: Use -O2 when building ose: Expand OSE docs ose: Add dummy ttsl driver ose: Cleanup cleanup of mutex selection defines ose: Polish mmap configure checks ose: Add ose specific x-compile flags ose: Updating fd_driver and spawn_driver for OSE ose: Updating event and signal API for OSE ose: Cleanup of mutex selection defines win32: Compile erl_log.exe ose: Remove uneccesary define ose: Fix ssl configure test for osx erts: Fix sys_msg_dispatcher assert ose: Fix broken doc links ose: Thread priorities configurable from lmconf ose: Yielding the cpu is done "the OSE" way ose: Start using ppdata for tse key ose: Do not use spinlocks on OSE ose: Fix support for crypto ... Conflicts: lib/crypto/c_src/crypto.c
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@@ -556,6 +556,21 @@
</desc>
</func>
+ <func>
+ <name>rand_seed(Seed) -> ok</name>
+ <fsummary>Set the seed for random bytes generation</fsummary>
+ <type>
+ <v>Seed = binary()</v>
+ </type>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Set the seed for PRNG to the given binary. This calls the
+ RAND_seed function from openssl. Only use this if the system
+ you are running on does not have enough "randomness" built in.
+ Normally this is when <seealso marker="#strong_rand_bytes/1">
+ stong_rand_bytes/1</seealso> returns <c>low_entropy</c></p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
<func>
<name>rand_uniform(Lo, Hi) -> N</name>
<fsummary>Generate a random number</fsummary>