From: ben@linuxgazette.net <ben@linuxgazette.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:33:49 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [perl #46019] Documentation for 'srand' has a problem in code snippet
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[perl #46019] Documentation for 'srand' has a problem in code snippet
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p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32011
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 49df408..a037970 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -5870,7 +5870,7 @@ than the default seed.  Checksumming the compressed output of one or more
 rapidly changing operating system status programs is the usual method.  For
 example:
 
-    srand (time ^ $$ ^ unpack "%L*", `ps axww | gzip`);
+    srand (time ^ $$ ^ unpack "%L*", `ps axww | gzip -f`);
 
 If you're particularly concerned with this, see the C<Math::TrulyRandom>
 module in CPAN.