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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/openssl/doc/man3/RAND_load_file.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/openssl/doc/man3/RAND_load_file.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/openssl/doc/man3/RAND_load_file.pod b/crypto/openssl/doc/man3/RAND_load_file.pod index baca54cb3c89..45570920ca95 100644 --- a/crypto/openssl/doc/man3/RAND_load_file.pod +++ b/crypto/openssl/doc/man3/RAND_load_file.pod @@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ RAND_load_file, RAND_write_file, RAND_file_name - PRNG seed file RAND_load_file() reads a number of bytes from file B<filename> and adds them to the PRNG. If B<max_bytes> is nonnegative, up to B<max_bytes> are read; -if B<max_bytes> is -1, the complete file is read. +if B<max_bytes> is -1, the complete file is read (unless the file +is not a regular file, in that case a fixed number of bytes, +256 in the current implementation, is attempted to be read). +RAND_load_file() can read less than the complete file or the requested number +of bytes if it doesn't fit in the return value type. Do not load the same file multiple times unless its contents have been updated by RAND_write_file() between reads. Also, note that B<filename> should be adequately protected so that an @@ -77,7 +81,7 @@ L<RAND(7)> =head1 COPYRIGHT -Copyright 2000-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. +Copyright 2000-2025 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy |