diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod index c2940a3455..97114af0fb 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod @@ -311,6 +311,12 @@ or the properties in the case of B<OSSL_RAND_PARAM_PROPERTIES>. =back +=head1 NOTES + +An B<EVP_RAND_CTX> needs to have locking enabled if it acts as the parent of +more than one child and the children can be accessed concurrently. This must +be done by explicitly calling EVP_RAND_enable_locking(). + =head1 RETURN VALUES EVP_RAND_fetch() returns a pointer to a newly fetched B<EVP_RAND>, or