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random.7: srcfix: FIXME 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71211 suggest it is not.
Consuming unnecessarily large quantities of data via these interfaces
will have a negative impact on other consumers of randomness.
.\" FIXME Above: we need to define "negative impact". Is the only
.\" negative impact that we may slow readers of /dev/random, since it
.\" will block until sufficient entropy has once more accumulated?
These interfaces should not be used to provide large quantities
of data for Monte Carlo simulations or other