Module Name: src
Committed By: riastradh
Date: Mon Aug 7 06:27:38 UTC 2023
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man4: rnd.4
Log Message:
rnd(4): Document `entropy: best effort' in random(4).
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.40 -r1.41 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4
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Index: src/share/man/man4/rnd.4
diff -u src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.40 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.41
--- src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.40 Sun Mar 20 18:19:57 2022
+++ src/share/man/man4/rnd.4 Mon Aug 7 06:27:37 2023
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.40 2022/03/20 18:19:57 riastradh Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.41 2023/08/07 06:27:37 riastradh Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2014-2020 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 May 1, 2020
+.Dd August 7, 2023
.Dt RND 4
.Os
.\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
@@ -613,6 +613,12 @@ A buggy bootloader tried to provide an e
the kernel.
Subsequent seeds will be entered into the entropy pool, but they will
be considered to contribute no entropy.
+.It entropy: best effort
+The system has gathered enough samples from interrupt timings and other
+non-confident sources of entropy for the first time to unblock
+.Pa /dev/random ,
+but it may not have full entropy from a seed or hardware random number
+generator.
.It entropy: ready
The system has full entropy for the first time.
.El
