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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Remove sentence that has not been true since ...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/0dfd0e61e5b4
branches:  trunk
changeset: 1020307:0dfd0e61e5b4
user:      riastradh <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Apr 06 22:12:16 2021 +0000

description:
Remove sentence that has not been true since netbsd-6.

ioctl(RNDADDDATA) is not the only way to raise the entropy estimate;
privileged writes to /dev/random have the same effect.

diffstat:

 share/man/man4/rnd.4 |  5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diffs (19 lines):

diff -r 38086928ca82 -r 0dfd0e61e5b4 share/man/man4/rnd.4
--- a/share/man/man4/rnd.4      Tue Apr 06 22:02:40 2021 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/rnd.4      Tue Apr 06 22:12:16 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.38 2021/02/12 01:52:09 riastradh Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.39 2021/04/06 22:12:16 riastradh Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2014-2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -389,9 +389,6 @@
 It is intended for a system that saves entropy to disk on shutdown and
 restores it on boot, so that the system can immediately be
 unpredictable without having to wait to gather entropy.
-.Pp
-This ioctl is the only way for userland to directly change the system's
-entropy estimate.
 .It Dv RNDGETPOOLSTAT Pq Vt rndpoolstat_t
 .Bd -literal
 typedef struct {



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