From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Subject: Re: New random(7) page for review Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:06:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1479110801.2624.2.camel@redhat.com> References: <1461574090.32558.45.camel@redhat.com> <1470052099.2926.6.camel@redhat.com> <1476952646.2522.10.camel@redhat.com> <1478768067.2642.23.camel@redhat.com> <1478778837.2642.26.camel@redhat.com> <05152136-6943-8ada-3d65-51ef4ce9c1b1@gmail.com> <4a8c573c-0c19-29d0-248e-74c088968806@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Laurent Georget Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 13:25 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello all, > > Following on from our discussions about the random(4) > page, and a suggestion from Laurent, I've created > a random(7) page that provides a short overview of > the APIs for obtaining randomness, and some comparisons > and recommendations for using those APIs. A good part of > the text is relocated from the existing getrandom(2) and > random(4) pages. I also incorporated a table that was > proposed by Laurent that compares the APIs on a number > of points. > > The rendered version of the page is below. The source is > attached (and already pushed to Git.)  > > Does anyone see any further tweaks that might be required? Looks fine to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html