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index f821eb784..3b7362295 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Remove mention of --seed, since
+ it's going away.
+
2006-05-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* coreutils.texi (Examples of date): Give example of @seconds.
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 3320a0817..c84335f78 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -3485,8 +3485,7 @@ appear earlier in the output instead of later.
@cindex random sort
Sort by hashing the input keys and then sorting the hash values. This
is much like a random shuffle of the inputs, except that keys with the
-same value sort together. Normally the hash function is chosen at
-random, but this can be overridden with the @option{--seed} option.
+same value sort together. The hash function is chosen at random.
@end table
@@ -3624,17 +3623,6 @@ This option can be useful in conjunction with @samp{perl -0} or
reliably handle arbitrary file names (even those containing blanks
or other special characters).
-@item --seed=@var{string}
-@opindex --seed
-@cindex seed for random hash
-Use data from @var{string} to choose the hash function used by the
-@option{--random-sort} option. This option can be used to reproduce
-results of earlier invocations of @command{sort} with
-@option{--random-sort}. However, results are not necessarily
-reproducible across different @command{sort} implementations (e.g.,
-@command{sort} on little-endian versus big-endian architectures, or
-from one version of @command{sort} to the next).
-
@end table
Historical (BSD and System V) implementations of @command{sort} have