On 01/22/2015 07:30 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Theodore Ts'o confirmed the bug described in > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/29/16 > > It should be mentioned in the manpage. Thanks, Heinrich. Applied. Cheers, Michael > 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) > -- 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
