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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2015-03-20 21:29:30 +0100
committerRickard Green <[email protected]>2015-03-20 21:29:30 +0100
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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
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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>