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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: GUO Zihua <guozihua@huawei.com>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>, <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	<mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	<ebiggers@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] random.4: Update description about O_NONBLOCK flag
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 09:27:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1w5dby0.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220802035336.33772-1-guozihua@huawei.com> (GUO Zihua's message of "Tue, 2 Aug 2022 11:53:36 +0800")

* GUO Zihua:

> diff --git a/man4/random.4 b/man4/random.4
> index bea860e7f0d7..5b2094931449 100644
> --- a/man4/random.4
> +++ b/man4/random.4
> @@ -68,7 +68,12 @@ high quality randomness, and can afford indeterminate delays.
>  .PP
>  When the entropy pool is empty, reads from \fI/dev/random\fP will block
>  until additional environmental noise is gathered.
> -If
> +Since Linux 5.6, the
> +.B O_NONBLOCK
> +flag is removed as
> +.I /dev/random
> +will no longer block except during 
> +early boot process. In eariler versions, if
>  .BR open (2)
>  is called for
>  .I /dev/random

Is ”is removed” correct here?  Should it be “is ignored” instead?

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-03  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-02  3:53 [patch] random.4: Update description about O_NONBLOCK flag GUO Zihua
2022-08-02 11:15 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-03  7:27 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2022-08-03  7:43   ` Guozihua (Scott)

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