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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-10-01 10:00:14 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-10-09 10:41:12 +0200 |
commit | fed8bd90e4cf02066eeed9426e29d709e3630cc9 (patch) | |
tree | a406909267e72b44a2ee2f987d06b74f0c0b60f8 /doc/man1/openssl-pkcs8.pod | |
parent | b1c0cc24564e7c8d3cd8a437585c230259584bb7 (diff) |
Command docs: remove ellipses for '-rand'
Ellipses were used to express that the '-rand' value can specify
multiple files, like this:
B<-rand> I<file...>
Because there are conventions around ellipses, this becomes confusing,
because '-rand file...' is normally intepreted to mean that
'-rand file1 file2 file3' would be processed as three randomness
files, which makes no sense.
Rather than making things complicated with more elaborate syntax, we
change it to:
B<-rand> I<files>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10065)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1/openssl-pkcs8.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/openssl-pkcs8.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-pkcs8.pod b/doc/man1/openssl-pkcs8.pod index e1cc0b38a5..1dcda10310 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl-pkcs8.pod +++ b/doc/man1/openssl-pkcs8.pod @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ B<openssl> B<pkcs8> [B<-passout> I<arg>] [B<-iter> I<count>] [B<-noiter>] -[B<-rand> I<file...>] +[B<-rand> I<files>] [B<-writerand> I<file>] [B<-nocrypt>] [B<-traditional>] @@ -105,10 +105,9 @@ This option does not encrypt private keys at all and should only be used when absolutely necessary. Certain software such as some versions of Java code signing software used unencrypted private keys. -=item B<-rand> I<file...> +=item B<-rand> I<files> -A file or files containing random data used to seed the random number -generator. +The files containing random data used to seed the random number generator. Multiple files can be specified separated by an OS-dependent character. The separator is B<;> for MS-Windows, B<,> for OpenVMS, and B<:> for all others. |