On 11/11/2016 12:01 PM, Laurent Georget wrote: > > > Le 11/11/2016 à 11:47, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit : >> Hi Nikos, >> >> On 11 November 2016 at 08:41, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] >>> So while the text is better and more precise in other aspects than >>> before I think it is a bit confusing the mix of getrandom() with >>> /dev/urandom and /dev/random. Maybe copy the text back and separate the >>> descriptions even if they are very similar at the moment? >> >> I'm reluctant to duplicate text in two places. I think that that >> duplication os prt of the reason why we have the current mess. > > So, maybe all this discussion about which interface to choose, expected > usage, etc. should go to a random.7 man page? This would be the logical > location to detail the differences about the three interfaces. What do > you think? That seems a reasonable suggestion. 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
