Commit 2be7014c authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte
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Change the RAND_file_name documentation accordingly

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@@ -20,15 +20,29 @@ RAND_file_name() generates a default path for the random seed
file. B<buf> points to a buffer of size B<num> in which to store the
filename.

On Windows the seed file is %RANDFILE% if that environment variable is set.
Otherwise the file is called ".rnd" in one of the following locations (in order
of preference): %TMP%, %TEMP%, %USERPROFILE%, %SYSTEMROOT%, %HOME%, "C:".
On all systems, if the environment variable B<RANDFILE> is set, its
value will be used as the seed file name.

On all other systems the seed file is $RANDFILE if that environment variable is
set, $HOME/.rnd otherwise.
Otherwise, the file is called ".rnd", found in platform dependent locations:

If $HOME (on non Windows systems) is not set either, or B<num> is
too small for the path name, an error occurs.
=over 4

=item On Windows (in order of preference)

%HOME%, %USERPROFILE%, %SYSTEMROOT%, C:\

=item On VMS

SYS$LOGIN:

=item On all other systems

$HOME

=back

If C<$HOME> (on non-Windows and non-VMS system) is not set either, or
B<num> is too small for the path name, an error occurs.

RAND_load_file() reads a number of bytes from file B<filename> and
adds them to the PRNG. If B<max_bytes> is non-negative,