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| author | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2015-03-20 21:37:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2015-03-20 21:37:15 +0100 |
| commit | 6642d62c071f94d3e76254453099e2df01f7ad0e (patch) | |
| tree | bb7acaeb1710092da6257ac3abd937bce67e394d /lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml | |
| parent | 74099492bee421c4829537bca3c4bc0c4fbec031 (diff) | |
| parent | f4e3cd1c970cfc5ad54f2ed64832d05749c305d4 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'rickard/time_api/master/OTP-11997'
* rickard/time_api/master/OTP-11997: (22 commits)
Update primary bootstrap
inets: Suppress deprecated warning on erlang:now/0
inets: Cleanup of multiple copies of functions Add inets_lib with common functions used by multiple modules
inets: Update comments
Suppress deprecated warning on erlang:now/0
Use new time API and be back-compatible in inets Remove unused functions and removed redundant test
asn1 test SUITE: Eliminate use of now/0
Disable deprecated warning on erlang:now/0 in diameter_lib
Use new time API and be back-compatible in ssh
Replace all calls to now/0 in CT with new time API functions
test_server: Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API
Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API
Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API
Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API
Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API
otp_SUITE: Warn for calls to erlang:now/0
Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API
Multiple timer wheels
Erlang based BIF timer implementation for scalability
Implement ethread events with timeout
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml index e001058e19..2cc621ffc3 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml @@ -70,12 +70,11 @@ <desc> <p>Seeds random number generation with integer values in the process dictionary, and returns the old state.</p> - <p>One way of obtaining a seed is to use the BIF <c>now/0</c>:</p> + <p>One easy way of obtaining a unique value to seed with is to:</p> <code type="none"> - ... - {A1,A2,A3} = now(), - random:seed(A1, A2, A3), - ...</code> + random:seed(<seealso marker="erts:erlang#phash2/1">erlang:phash2</seealso>([<seealso marker="erts:erlang#node/0">node()</seealso>]), + <seealso marker="erts:erlang#monotonic_time/0">erlang:monotonic_time()</seealso>, + <seealso marker="erts:erlang#unique_integer/0">erlang:unique_integer()</seealso>)</code> </desc> </func> <func> |