From 978323c72e3636c481cf8c77d8e00582cc0d2561 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:18:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] getrandom.2: Reword sentence on blocked getrandom() and interruption by signals Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/getrandom.2 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/getrandom.2 b/man2/getrandom.2 index 34001c648..f302508db 100644 --- a/man2/getrandom.2 +++ b/man2/getrandom.2 @@ -170,11 +170,11 @@ When reading from is set), blocking occurs if not enough random bytes are available. -The reaction of +The behavior when a call to .BR getrandom () -in case of an interruption of a blocking call by a signal -when reading from +that is blocked while reading from .I /dev/urandom +is interrupted by a signal handler depends on the initialization state of the entropy buffer and on the request size, .IR buflen .