Merge branch 'maint' into sverk/trace-process_dump-matchstate

Conflicts:
	erts/emulator/beam/erl_printf_term.c
	erts/emulator/beam/erl_term.c
	erts/emulator/beam/utils.c

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
index e001058e19..91a4012ce9 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
@@ -8,16 +8,17 @@
       <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
-      The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
-      Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
-      compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
-      Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
-      retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
-    
-      Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
-      basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
-      the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
-      under the License.
+      Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+      You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+      distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+      WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+      See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+      limitations under the License.
     
     </legalnotice>
 
@@ -48,6 +49,9 @@
     <p>It should be noted that this random number generator is not cryptographically 
       strong. If a strong cryptographic random number generator is needed for
       example <c>crypto:rand_bytes/1</c> could be used instead.</p>
+      <note><p>The new and improved <seealso
+      marker="stdlib:rand">rand</seealso> module should be used
+      instead of this module.</p></note>
   </description>
   <datatypes>
     <datatype>
@@ -70,12 +74,11 @@
       <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>