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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sg_dd.8 b/doc/sg_dd.8 index 7d931b6d..23c3246e 100644 --- a/doc/sg_dd.8 +++ b/doc/sg_dd.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH SG_DD "8" "April 2021" "sg3_utils\-1.47" SG3_UTILS +.TH SG_DD "8" "August 2021" "sg3_utils\-1.47" SG3_UTILS .SH NAME sg_dd \- copy data to and from files and devices, especially SCSI devices @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ random this flag is only active with \fIiflag=\fR and when given replaces \fIif=IFILE\fR. If both are given an error is generated. The input will be a stream of pseudo random bytes. The Linux getrandom(2) system call is -used to create a seed and thereadter mrand48_r(3) is used to generate a +used to create a seed and thereadter mrand48(3) is used to generate a pseudo random sequence, 4 bytes at a time. The quality of the randomness can be viewed with the ent(1) utility. This is not a high quality random number generator, it is built for speed, not quality. One application is |