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From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:31:10 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: allow writes to /dev/urandom to influence fast init
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Hi Eric,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:27 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> The example in random(4) needs to be fixed too, right?
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/random.4.html

Yes, that's always been wrong, at least for all of 2.6.... There are a
number of issues with the man page that I plan on addressing all at
once with a series.

Jason