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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man7 Document usage of KERN_ARND
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/51218c96cac2
branches: trunk
changeset: 461134:51218c96cac2
user: nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Sat Nov 16 17:33:09 2019 +0000
description:
Document usage of KERN_ARND
diffstat:
share/man/man7/sysctl.7 | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diffs (22 lines):
diff -r 624f09d66e94 -r 51218c96cac2 share/man/man7/sysctl.7
--- a/share/man/man7/sysctl.7 Sat Nov 16 15:51:26 2019 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man7/sysctl.7 Sat Nov 16 17:33:09 2019 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: sysctl.7,v 1.141 2019/11/14 21:23:46 jdolecek Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: sysctl.7,v 1.142 2019/11/16 17:33:09 nia Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -383,8 +383,10 @@
upon loading or unloading the corresponding kernel module.
.It Li kern.aio_max
The maximum number of asynchronous I/O operations.
-.It Li kern.arandom
-This variable picks a random number each time it is queried.
+.It Li kern.arandom ( Dv KERN_ARND )
+This variable returns up to 256 bytes of random data.
+Multiple queries can be used to obtain an infinite amount of
+non-blocking cryptographically secure random data.
The used random number generator
.Pf ( RNG )
is based on
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