LDP
/
man-pages
mirror of https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages
0
1
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

getrandom.2: Minor tweaks 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Kerrisk 2015-01-29 23:28:58 +01:00
parent bfa4433525
commit 077e532d80
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

4
man2/getrandom.2
View File

@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ system call fills the buffer pointed to by
with up to
.I buflen
random bytes.
These can be used to seed user-space random number generators
These bytes can be used to seed user-space random number generators
or for cryptographic purposes.
.PP
.BR getrandom ()
@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ on other users of the
and
.I /dev/urandom
devices.
Therefore
Therefore,
.BR getrandom ()
should not be used for Monte Carlo simulations or other
programs/algorithms which are doing probabilistic sampling.