From 6475463f799b980dcc922bb113a8d6294beceba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jacob Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:10:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note the possibility of a pause due to /dev/random blocking. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@9125 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/man-pg.but | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/man-pg.but b/doc/man-pg.but index dd51d4d1..86136ded 100644 --- a/doc/man-pg.but +++ b/doc/man-pg.but @@ -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} -- 2.11.0