Re: New random(7) page for review

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On 11/14/2016 09:06 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 13:25 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Following on from our discussions about the random(4)
>> page, and a suggestion from Laurent, I've created
>> a random(7) page that provides a short overview of
>> the APIs for obtaining randomness, and some comparisons
>> and recommendations for using those APIs. A good part of
>> the text is relocated from the existing getrandom(2) and
>> random(4) pages. I also incorporated a table that was
>> proposed by Laurent that compares the APIs on a number
>> of points.
>>
>> The rendered version of the page is below. The source is
>> attached (and already pushed to Git.) 
>>
>> Does anyone see any further tweaks that might be required?
> 
> Looks fine to me.

Thanks, Nikos.

Cheers,

Michael



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