From af0b09905132719627d14e245454d657fb052392 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:40:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] random.4: wfix Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man4/random.4 | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man4/random.4 b/man4/random.4 index 8c2349b63..a0c10fa8b 100644 --- a/man4/random.4 +++ b/man4/random.4 @@ -25,9 +25,12 @@ random, urandom \- kernel random number source devices The character special files \fI/dev/random\fP and \fI/dev/urandom\fP (present since Linux 1.3.30) provide an interface to the kernel's random number generator. -File \fI/dev/random\fP has major device number 1 -and minor device number 8. -File \fI/dev/urandom\fP has major device number 1 and minor device number 9. +The file +.I /dev/random\fP +has major device number 1 and minor device number 8. +The file +.I /dev/urandom +has major device number 1 and minor device number 9. .LP The random number generator gathers environmental noise from device drivers and other sources into an entropy pool.