tags 775328 fixed-upstream thanks Mathieu,
On 14 January 2015 at 08:57, Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > 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. > [...] Thanks for the report. In upstream, I've added a sentence similar to your proposal. Cheers, Michael > -- 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 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
