Note the possibility of a pause due to /dev/random blocking.
authorjacob <jacob@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:10:47 +0000 (18:10 +0000)
committerjacob <jacob@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:10:47 +0000 (18:10 +0000)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@9125 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e

doc/man-pg.but

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@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ the following section.
 \S{puttygen-manpage-options} OPTIONS
 
 In the first phase, \c{puttygen} either loads or generates a key.
-The options to control this are:
+Note that generating a key requires random data (from
+\c{/dev/random}), which can cause \c{puttygen} to pause, possibly for
+some time if your system does not have much randomness available.
+
+The options to control this phase are:
 
 \dt \e{keyfile}