Module: libav Branch: master Commit: 192bfbc1f18d50afea03c2d62ce5325fabb2f141
Author: Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> Committer: Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> Date: Thu Jun 30 20:44:46 2011 +0200 avutil: elaborate documentation for av_get_random_seed --- libavutil/random_seed.h | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/libavutil/random_seed.h b/libavutil/random_seed.h index 8157d42..5bfeb8b 100644 --- a/libavutil/random_seed.h +++ b/libavutil/random_seed.h @@ -24,7 +24,12 @@ #include <stdint.h> /** - * Get a seed to use in conjunction with random functions. + * Get random data. + * + * This function can be called repeatedly to generate more random bits + * as needed. It is generally quite slow, and usually used to seed a + * PRNG. As it uses /dev/urandom and /dev/random, the quality of the + * returned random data depends on the platform. */ uint32_t av_get_random_seed(void); _______________________________________________ libav-commits mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-commits
