Hi Jon, On 13 December 2016 at 20:20, Jon Jensen <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> Your email fell on the floor a few years ago. Sorry about that... >> >> Long after the fact, I've applied a slightly different patch: >> >> diff --git a/man4/random.4 b/man4/random.4 >> index d4bd03f..4dbf585 100644 >> --- a/man4/random.4 >> +++ b/man4/random.4 >> @@ -213,9 +213,8 @@ The files in the directory >> device: >> .TP >> .I entropy_avail >> -This read-only file gives the available entropy. >> -Normally, this will be 4096 (bits), >> -a full entropy pool. >> +This read-only file gives the available entropy, in bits. >> +This will be a number in the range 0 to 4096. >> .TP >> .I poolsize >> This file > > > Your version looks great. Glad to have it fixed! I've handled a few patches > many years after the fact myself, so I can chuckle about it from both sides > of the transaction. :) :-} Your patch arrived at the worst possible moment. 2010 was a hard year. In fact, the only reason I found the patch again was that I swept my mailbox for patches relating to random(4), because in the last release of man-pages[1] (yesterday), random(4) and related pages had massive updates, and I thought I just better go and check if there was anything old that that was related and that I had missed in my inbox. Yours was the only relevant mail :-). Cheers, Michael [1] http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.de/2016/12/man-pages-409-is-released.html -- 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
