From fbee8c409cd042ddce4db674c4e4ddde84e227ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:10:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Note the possibility of a pause due to /dev/random blocking.

[originally from svn r9125]
---
 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}