From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:27:06 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: getrandom.2: Clarify interaction of GRND_RANDOM and signals
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getrandom.2: Clarify interaction of GRND_RANDOM and signals

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/getrandom.2 b/man2/getrandom.2
index 3531f25b9d..5e4ca71210 100644
--- a/man2/getrandom.2
+++ b/man2/getrandom.2
@@ -207,13 +207,13 @@ then
 will not fail with
 .BR EINTR .
 Instead, it will return all of the bytes that have been requested.
-.PP
+
 When reading from
 .IR /dev/random ,
-these guarantees do
-.I not
-apply.
-.PP
+blocking requests of any size can be interrupted by a signal
+(the call fails with the error
+.BR EINTR ).
+
 Calling
 .BR getrandom ()
 to read