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Re:Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first by x1798DE on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:06AM (#11628422)
The part of the man page that can be considered a spec is the part that describes the behaviour, and the arguments in favor of always using /dev/urandom over /dev/random are based on the described blocking behaviour.

I'm fairly sure they would have to change the nature of /dev/urandom in such a way as would invalidate the other parts of the documentation in order to make the erroneous parts of the man page contain valid concerns.

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