Source-Changes-HG archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]

[src/netbsd-9]: src/share/man/man7 Pull up following revision(s) (requested b...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/c63f63564578
branches:  netbsd-9
changeset: 461201:c63f63564578
user:      martin <martin%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Mon Nov 18 19:45:00 2019 +0000

description:
Pull up following revision(s) (requested by nia in ticket #440):

        share/man/man7/sysctl.7: revision 1.142

Document usage of KERN_ARND

diffstat:

 share/man/man7/sysctl.7 |  8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diffs (22 lines):

diff -r c714ca5b8a5e -r c63f63564578 share/man/man7/sysctl.7
--- a/share/man/man7/sysctl.7   Mon Nov 18 19:36:03 2019 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man7/sysctl.7   Mon Nov 18 19:45:00 2019 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: sysctl.7,v 1.139 2019/06/01 19:54:34 kamil Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: sysctl.7,v 1.139.2.1 2019/11/18 19:45:00 martin Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -382,8 +382,10 @@
 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



Home | Main Index | Thread Index | Old Index