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getrandom.2: Reword GRND_RANDOM description 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-11-11 11:27:06 +01:00
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@ -85,9 +85,11 @@ The
.I /dev/random
pool is limited based on the entropy that can be obtained from environmental
noise.
If fewer random bytes are available than are requested in
If the number of available bytes in
.I /dev/random
is less than requested in
.IR buflen ,
the available random bytes will be copied and the call returns.
the call returns just the available random bytes.
If no random byte is available, the response will depend on the
presence of
.B GRND_NONBLOCK