Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:32:00 GMT From: David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: fd309107e9dc - main - Minor language improvements. Note that they can't be changed by sysctl (I think they can be changed as a tuneable.) Message-ID: <202107290832.16T8W0hA061828@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by dwmalone: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=fd309107e9dc403ef376bb1b992323977cc678f5 commit fd309107e9dc403ef376bb1b992323977cc678f5 Author: David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-07-29 08:23:39 +0000 Commit: David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-07-29 08:26:19 +0000 Minor language improvements. Note that they can't be changed by sysctl (I think they can be changed as a tuneable.) --- share/man/man4/random.4 | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/random.4 b/share/man/man4/random.4 index 3b3f9b2330e3..fb851cdb7ba1 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/random.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/random.4 @@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ state, and will block reads until it is seeded for the first time. .Pp To provide prompt access to the random device at boot time, .Fx -automatically persists some entropy data in +automatically saves some entropy data in .Pa /boot/entropy -for the loader to provide to the kernel. +for the +.Xr loader 8 +to provide to the kernel. Additional entropy is regularly saved in .Pa /var/db/entropy . This saved entropy is sufficient to unblock the random device on devices with @@ -95,7 +97,8 @@ Other than .Va kern.random.fortuna.minpoolsize , and .Va kern.random.harvest.mask , -all settings are read-only. +all settings are read-only via +.Xr sysctl 8 . .Pp The .Pa kern.random.fortuna.minpoolsize @@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ sysctls can be used to confirm settings in a human readable form. Disabled items -in the latter item +in the latter are listed in square brackets. See .Xr random_harvest 9
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