git: fd309107e9dc - main - Minor language improvements. Note that they can't be changed by sysctl (I think they can be changed as a tuneable.)
David Malone
dwmalone at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 29 08:32:00 UTC 2021
The branch main has been updated by dwmalone:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=fd309107e9dc403ef376bb1b992323977cc678f5
commit fd309107e9dc403ef376bb1b992323977cc678f5
Author: David Malone <dwmalone at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-07-29 08:23:39 +0000
Commit: David Malone <dwmalone at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-07-29 08:26:19 +0000
Minor language improvements. Note that they can't be changed
by sysctl (I think they can be changed as a tuneable.)
---
share/man/man4/random.4 | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/share/man/man4/random.4 b/share/man/man4/random.4
index 3b3f9b2330e3..fb851cdb7ba1 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/random.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/random.4
@@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ state, and will block reads until it is seeded for the first time.
.Pp
To provide prompt access to the random device at boot time,
.Fx
-automatically persists some entropy data in
+automatically saves some entropy data in
.Pa /boot/entropy
-for the loader to provide to the kernel.
+for the
+.Xr loader 8
+to provide to the kernel.
Additional entropy is regularly saved in
.Pa /var/db/entropy .
This saved entropy is sufficient to unblock the random device on devices with
@@ -95,7 +97,8 @@ Other than
.Va kern.random.fortuna.minpoolsize ,
and
.Va kern.random.harvest.mask ,
-all settings are read-only.
+all settings are read-only via
+.Xr sysctl 8 .
.Pp
The
.Pa kern.random.fortuna.minpoolsize
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ sysctls
can be used to confirm
settings in a human readable form.
Disabled items
-in the latter item
+in the latter
are listed in square brackets.
See
.Xr random_harvest 9
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