From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:13:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: More retraction. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b90ada5a1675d8de9e79ad2a4437d0678a700f67;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git More retraction. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20138 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index e9cd2a6..359c68a 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -849,12 +849,12 @@ to create such degenerate hashes. Because of this feature the keys(), values(), and each() functions may return the hash elements in different order between different -runs of Perl even with the same data. One can still revert to the old -repeatable order by setting the environment variable PERL_HASH_SEED, -see L. Another option is to add -DUSE_HASH_SEED_EXPLICIT to -the compilation flags, in which case one has to explicitly set the -PERL_HASH_SEED environment variable to enable the security feature, -or -DNO_HASH_SEED to completely disable the feature. +runs of Perl even with the same data. The additional randomisation +is enabled if the environment variable PERL_HASH_SEED is set, see +perlrun for details. + +One make the randomisation default by adding -DUSE_HASH_SEED to the +compilation flags, or completely disable it by adding -DNO_HASH_SEED. B, and the ordering has already changed several times during the lifetime of