From: Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:24:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add passage to manual page actually reflecting the usage of the
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_0_9_8f~24
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e3fd543370c6aa82d7c8bc57cdf5b58248efbfc;p=oweals%2Fopenssl.git

Add passage to manual page actually reflecting the usage of the
contents of "buf" when calling RAND_*bytes().
---

diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod
index ce6329ce54..34f8cd2544 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ unpredictable. They can be used for non-cryptographic purposes and for
 certain purposes in cryptographic protocols, but usually not for key
 generation etc.
 
+The contents of B<buf> is mixed into the entropy pool before retrieving
+the new pseudo-random bytes unless disabled at compile time.
+
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
 RAND_bytes() returns 1 on success, 0 otherwise. The error code can be