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| author | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2016-12-08 09:38:55 +1100 |
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| committer | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2017-09-11 10:59:43 +1000 |
| commit | d62950713a9b1969a52015f065537f4a2cc224f3 (patch) | |
| tree | e9808532fdccef3815b692898882118256d20738 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 929344c06d753c7727ddb290d2b5b2dd62462cc5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d62950713a9b1969a52015f065537f4a2cc224f3.tar.gz | |
(perl #127663) provide limited control for the internal drand48()
perl can be built without PERL_INTERNAL_RAND_SEED support to reduce
it's attack surface.
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -2721,6 +2721,12 @@ F<mathoms.c> will not be compiled in. Those functions are no longer used by perl itself; for source compatibility reasons, though, they weren't completely removed. +=head2 C<-DNO_PERL_INTERNAL_RAND_SEED> +X<PERL_INTERNAL_RAND_SEED> + +If you configure perl with C<-Accflags=-DNO_PERL_INTERNAL_RAND_SEED>, +perl will ignore the C<PERL_INTERNAL_RAND_SEED> enviroment variable. + =head1 DOCUMENTATION Read the manual entries before running perl. The main documentation |