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 ce6329ce54afe2a9ffe95b15d3448864b8b5a636..34f8cd2544b00df7f69eb5dc3cd2721ab4825e49 100644 (file)
--- 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