Theodore Ts'o confirmed the bug described in https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/29/16 It should be mentioned in the manpage. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> --- man2/getrandom.2 | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/getrandom.2 b/man2/getrandom.2 index 5bf57b7..e9f62c5 100644 --- a/man2/getrandom.2 +++ b/man2/getrandom.2 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END -.TH GETRANDOM 2 2014-10-03 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH GETRANDOM 2 2015-01-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getrandom \- obtain a series of random bytes .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -252,6 +252,13 @@ failure: } .fi .in +.SH BUGS +As of Linux 3.19, the following bug exists: +.PP +.\" FIXME patch proposed https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/29/16 +Depending on CPU load +.BR getrandom () +does not react to interrupts before reading all bytes requested. .SH SEE ALSO .BR random (4), .BR urandom (4) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
