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diff --git a/misc-utils/mcookie.1 b/misc-utils/mcookie.1
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@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ process id, the parent process id, the contents of an input file (if
.B \-f
is specified), and several bytes of information from the first of the
following devices which is present:
-.IR /dev/urandom ", " /dev/random ", " /dev/audio .
-Other files in
-.I /proc
-may be used as a last resort.
+.IR /dev/random ,
+.IR /dev/urandom ,
+files in
+.IR /proc ,
+.IR /dev/audio .
.SH BUGS
The entropy in the generated 128-bit is probably quite small (and,
therefore, vulnerable to attack) unless a non-pseudorandom number generator