8220730: sun.security.provider.SecureRandom default constructor has wrong documentation

[bradfordwetmore]

This is to fix some out-of-date information in the javadoc for the SHA1PRNG that has generated a customer bug.

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• JDK-8220730: sun.security.provider.SecureRandom default constructor has wrong documentation

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• Weijun Wang (@wangweij - Reviewer)

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[wangweij]

I feel some sentences are still not precise.

[wangweij]

Looks fine. Thanks.

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8220730: sun.security.provider.SecureRandom default constructor has wrong documentation

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At the time when this comment was updated there had been 52 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• 4e43b28: 8256359: AArch64: runtime/ReservedStack/ReservedStackTestCompiler.java fails
• 6e00622: 8256488: [aarch64] Use ldpq/stpq instead of ld4/st4 for small copies in StubGenerator::copy_memory
• a93841a: 8255277: randomDelay in DrainDeadlockT and LoggingDeadlock do not randomly delay
• 2d30a10: 8257069: C2: Clarify and sanity test RegMask/RegMaskIterator
• 0a5de50: 8257151: ZGC: Simplify ZVerify
• bf66d73: 8257073: ZGC: Try forward object before retaining page
• 1b3aa3a: 8256831: MIPS Zero builds fail with undefined __atomic_compare_exchange_8
• 734d3c3: 8256862: Several java/foreign tests fail on x86_32 platforms
• 7946c94: 8257082: ZGC: Clean up ZRuntimeWorkers and ZWorkers
• f6d6a07: 8256938: Improve remembered set sampling task scheduling
• ... and 42 more: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/compare/b52f6c053bf5cf6363088cb8bd210abb4e7350ff...master

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@bradfordwetmore Since your change was applied there have been 52 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 4e43b28: 8256359: AArch64: runtime/ReservedStack/ReservedStackTestCompiler.java fails
• 6e00622: 8256488: [aarch64] Use ldpq/stpq instead of ld4/st4 for small copies in StubGenerator::copy_memory
• a93841a: 8255277: randomDelay in DrainDeadlockT and LoggingDeadlock do not randomly delay
• 2d30a10: 8257069: C2: Clarify and sanity test RegMask/RegMaskIterator
• 0a5de50: 8257151: ZGC: Simplify ZVerify
• bf66d73: 8257073: ZGC: Try forward object before retaining page
• 1b3aa3a: 8256831: MIPS Zero builds fail with undefined __atomic_compare_exchange_8
• 734d3c3: 8256862: Several java/foreign tests fail on x86_32 platforms
• 7946c94: 8257082: ZGC: Clean up ZRuntimeWorkers and ZWorkers
• f6d6a07: 8256938: Improve remembered set sampling task scheduling
• ... and 42 more: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/compare/b52f6c053bf5cf6363088cb8bd210abb4e7350ff...master

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