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random.3: BUGS: inistate() does not return NULL on error 

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15380

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@ -177,6 +177,14 @@ in depth, see Chapter 3 (Random Numbers) in Donald E. Knuth's
.IR "The Art of Computer Programming" ,
volume 2 (Seminumerical Algorithms), 2nd ed.; Reading, Massachusetts:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1981.
.SH BUGS
According to POSIX,
.BR initstate ()
should return NULL on error.
In the glibc implementation,
.I errno
is (as specified) set on error, but the function does not return NULL.
.\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15380
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR drand48 (3),
.BR rand (3),