From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update the random(4) documentation towards a more accurate view on /dev/urandom Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:19:07 +0100 Message-ID: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <05152136-6943-8ada-3d65-51ef4ce9c1b1-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, tytso-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org, George Spelvin , Stephan Mueller , =?UTF-8?Q?Carl_Winb=c3=a4ck?= , Laurent Georget , mpm-VDJrAJ4Gl5ZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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