BSD Ports

devel/p5-BSD-arc4random 1.50p6 OpenBSD

perl interface to the arc4 random number generator

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Alexander Bluhm <[email protected]>
Categories
devel, perl5

Description

This set of functions maps the arc4random(3) family of libc functions into Perl code. All functions listed below are ithreads-safe. The internal XS functions are not, but you are not supposed to call them, either.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.50, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
OpenBSDdevel/p5-BSD-arc4random1.50p6 newestno data-Alexander Bluhm <[email protected]>-
NetBSDsecurity/p5-BSD-arc4random by name1.50nb15 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-07-16

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Install

Binary package:

pkg_add p5-BSD-arc4random

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-BSD-arc4random && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies