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@@ -140,11 +140,11 @@ is outside the accessible address space.
.B EINTR
The call was interrupted by a signal
handler; see the description of how interrupted
-.BR read (2)
+.MR read 2
calls on "slow" devices are handled with and without the
.B SA_RESTART
flag in the
-.BR signal (7)
+.MR signal 7
man page.
.TP
.B EINVAL
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ glibc 2.25.
.SH NOTES
For an overview and comparison of the various interfaces that
can be used to obtain randomness, see
-.BR random (7).
+.MR random 7 .
.P
Unlike
.I /dev/random
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ does not involve the use of pathnames or file descriptors.
Thus,
.BR getrandom ()
can be useful in cases where
-.BR chroot (2)
+.MR chroot 2
makes
.I /dev
pathnames invisible,
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ The special treatment of small values of
.I buflen
was designed for compatibility with
OpenBSD's
-.BR getentropy (3),
+.MR getentropy 3 ,
which is nowadays supported by glibc.
.P
The user of
@@ -288,8 +288,8 @@ Depending on CPU load,
.BR getrandom ()
does not react to interrupts before reading all bytes requested.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR getentropy (3),
-.BR random (4),
-.BR urandom (4),
-.BR random (7),
-.BR signal (7)
+.MR getentropy 3 ,
+.MR random 4 ,
+.MR urandom 4 ,
+.MR random 7 ,
+.MR signal 7