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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 rnd(4): Consistently call it the `global pool'.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/98dba0792042
branches: trunk
changeset: 959379:98dba0792042
user: riastradh <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Fri Feb 12 01:52:09 2021 +0000
description:
rnd(4): Consistently call it the `global pool'.
The `ready pool' is a term I used in a draft that I never committed.
diffstat:
share/man/man4/rnd.4 | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diffs (18 lines):
diff -r aa4d10257d16 -r 98dba0792042 share/man/man4/rnd.4
--- a/share/man/man4/rnd.4 Thu Feb 11 19:06:24 2021 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/rnd.4 Fri Feb 12 01:52:09 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.37 2021/01/15 15:54:20 riastradh Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.38 2021/02/12 01:52:09 riastradh Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2014-2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@
If the operator is confident that the drivers' estimates of the entropy
of the sampling processes are too conservative, the operator can issue
.Dl # sysctl -w kern.entropy.consolidate=1
-to force consolidation into the ready pool.
+to force consolidation into the global pool.
The operator can also fool the system into thinking it has more entropy
than it does by feeding data from
.Pa /dev/urandom
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