[PATCH 1/4] Reorganize manual sections on cryptography and random numbers.

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue May 8 13:29:00 GMT 2018


On 05/06/2018 07:51 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 	* manual/crypt.texi: Move most of the introductory text to the
>          'crypt' section.  Move the example programs below the
>          @deftypefun for 'crypt_r'.  Move the DESERR_* table and
>          DES_FAILED deftypefun below cbc_crypt.  Move the entire
>          'getpass' section...
> 	* manual/terminal.texi: ...here.
> 
> 	* manual/random.texi: New file consolidating all discussion of
> 	random number generation.
> 	* manual/crypt.texi: 'Unpredictable Bytes' section moved to random.texi.
> 	* manual/math.texi: 'Pseudo-Random Numbers' section moved to
> 	random.texi.
> 	* manual/Makefile (chapters): Add 'random' after 'arith'.

I think this is okay.  I have not checked for no inadvertent changes in 
detail, though.

> 	* manual/arith.texi, manual/time.texi: Update chapter-level node
> 	pointers.

Do we still need to maintain node pointers manually?

Thanks,
Florian



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