Package: manpages Version: 3.74-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The manpage for `urandom` is misleading, at least with recent linux kernel. The current man page reads as: [...] A read from the /dev/urandom device will not block waiting for more entropy. [...] However since commit 79a8468747c5 only a maximum of 32MB are returned. It should be clarified in the documentation that urandom only return random data within this size. See: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80981#c9 Full reference: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/178957/32896 Suggested patch: [...] A read from the /dev/urandom device will not block waiting for more entropy, but will only return random bytes with a maximum of 32MB per read(2) system call. [...] -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) manpages depends on no packages. manpages recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages suggests: ii man-db [man-browser] 2.7.0.2-5 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
