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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man9 New sentence, new line. Fix some markup. Bump...
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/d740eb1122e9
branches: trunk
changeset: 772096:d740eb1122e9
user: wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Sat Dec 17 21:25:12 2011 +0000
description:
New sentence, new line. Fix some markup. Bump date for previous.
diffstat:
share/man/man9/rnd.9 | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diffs (51 lines):
diff -r 2a44fa80f962 -r d740eb1122e9 share/man/man9/rnd.9
--- a/share/man/man9/rnd.9 Sat Dec 17 21:24:40 2011 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man9/rnd.9 Sat Dec 17 21:25:12 2011 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rnd.9,v 1.19 2011/12/17 20:05:38 tls Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rnd.9,v 1.20 2011/12/17 21:25:12 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd September 16, 2008
+.Dd December 17, 2011
.Dt RND 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
.Xr cprng 9
and
.Xr rnd 4
-.Pa (/dev/random) interfaces.
+.Pa ( /dev/random )
+interfaces.
.Pp
Ideally the first argument
.Fa rnd_source
@@ -196,16 +197,15 @@
Folding the data in half prevents the caller to derive the
actual hash of the pool, preventing some attacks.
.Pp
-.Pp
-In the NetBSD kernel, values should be extracted from the entropy
-pool
+In the
+.Nx
+kernel, values should be extracted from the entropy pool
.Em only
via the
.Xr cprng 9
-interface. Direct access to the entropy pool is unsupported and
-may be dangerous. There is no supported API for direct access to
-the output of the entropy pool.
-.Pp
+interface.
+Direct access to the entropy pool is unsupported and may be dangerous.
+There is no supported API for direct access to the output of the entropy pool.
.\" .Sh ERRORS
.Sh FILES
These functions are declared in src/sys/sys/rnd.h and defined in
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