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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-09-08 12:34:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-09-08 12:34:37 +0000 |
| commit | c910b28aed05bec7c1e3d60658ca4a270bf0077d (patch) | |
| tree | 349bd3669e0c08e8d8c94224683f84d343229b05 /pod/perlrun.pod | |
| parent | 108ccc4560b5d414559c30fa02e7c3ad3a9302f1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-c910b28aed05bec7c1e3d60658ca4a270bf0077d.tar.gz | |
Add Hash::Util::hash_seed() which answers among
other things the question whether our hashes are
"randomised". (They always were...)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@21087
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlrun.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index 3ddb2f8f68..f8a0ae6be6 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -1139,12 +1139,14 @@ the pseudorandom seed supplied by the operating system and libraries. This means that each different run of Perl will have a different ordering of the results of keys(), values(), and each(). -See L<perlsec/"Algorithmic Complexity Attacks"> for more information. +See L<perlsec/"Algorithmic Complexity Attacks"> for more information, +and also L</PERL_HASH_SEED>. =item PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG (Since Perl 5.8.1.) Set to "1" to display (to STDERR) the value of the hash seed at the beginning of execution. +See also hash_seed() of L<Hash::Util>. =item PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port) |