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author | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2015-03-20 21:29:30 +0100 |
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committer | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2015-03-20 21:29:30 +0100 |
commit | f4e3cd1c970cfc5ad54f2ed64832d05749c305d4 (patch) | |
tree | a008c88d68c801ac290373920435d952b027905c /lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml | |
parent | c0d3f4cbb5775a9214366e0d9cb76847d69c3459 (diff) | |
parent | e7a713167e3390bfa7d7ada2eafe5fe16f185405 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'rickard/time_api/OTP-11997'
* rickard/time_api/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
...
Conflicts:
bootstrap/bin/start.boot
bootstrap/bin/start_clean.boot
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/beam_asm.beam
bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/compile.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/auth.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/dist_util.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/global.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/hipe_unified_loader.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/inet_db.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/inet_dns.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/inet_res.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/os.beam
bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/pg2.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/dets.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/dets_utils.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/erl_tar.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/escript.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/file_sorter.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/otp_internal.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/qlc.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/random.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/supervisor.beam
bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/timer.beam
erts/aclocal.m4
erts/emulator/beam/bif.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_db_hash.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h
erts/emulator/beam/erl_thr_progress.c
erts/emulator/beam/utils.c
erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c
erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam
erts/preloaded/ebin/init.beam
erts/preloaded/src/erts_internal.erl
lib/common_test/test/ct_hooks_SUITE_data/cth/tests/empty_cth.erl
lib/diameter/src/base/diameter_lib.erl
lib/kernel/src/os.erl
lib/ssh/test/ssh_basic_SUITE.erl
system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml
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> |