Re: [PATCH] Update the random(4) documentation towards a more accurate view on /dev/urandom

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 11/10/2016 12:56 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 11/10/2016 12:53 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-11-10 at 12:50 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> Hello Nikos,
>>
>>>>>>  If a seed file is saved across reboots as recommended below
>>>>>> (all
>>>>>> major
>>>>>>  Linux distributions have done this since 2000 at least), the
>>>>>> output is
>>>>>> -- 2.7.4
>>>>> Laurent Georget also commented on this page in a mail last year.
>>>>> I'm going to thread you (and the other people on this mail) into
>>>>> that mail discussion in case there's something there that you
>>>>> might incorporate into a revised patch.
>>>>
>>>> I think it was a different paragraph. Replied in the other email.
>>>
>>> Okay.
>>>
>>> I've applied your patch. Thanks for persisting with this.
>>> After massaging the text a little, I have also applied 
>>> the following wording fix, which I hope is okay:
>>
>> The new text is fine with me.
> 
> Thanks, Nikos.

All the changes we discussed so far are now pushed to Git.
I'll now send out a couple of proposed patches.

Cheers,

Michael



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