Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Mon May 4 15:10:41 UTC 2020
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man4: rnd.4
Log Message:
Break line after macro arguments end. Use \- for minus.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.33 -r1.34 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4
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Index: src/share/man/man4/rnd.4
diff -u src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.33 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.34
--- src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.33 Fri May 1 19:56:08 2020
+++ src/share/man/man4/rnd.4 Mon May 4 15:10:40 2020
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.33 2020/05/01 19:56:08 riastradh Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.34 2020/05/04 15:10:40 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2014-2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -463,14 +463,15 @@ pool at the next consolidation, such as
.It Dv kern.entropy.epoch Pq Vt unsigned int
Number of times system has reached full entropy, or entropy has been
consolidated with
-.Dv kern.entropy.consolidate , as an unsigned 32-bit integer.
+.Dv kern.entropy.consolidate ,
+as an unsigned 32-bit integer.
Consulted inside the kernel by subsystems such as
.Xr cprng 9
to decide whether to reseed.
-Initially set to 2^32 - 1
-.Pq i.e., Li "(unsigned)-1"
+Initially set to 2^32 \- 1
+.Pq i.e., Li "(unsigned)\-1"
meaning the system has never reached full entropy and the entropy has
-never been consolidated; never again set to 2^32 - 1.
+never been consolidated; never again set to 2^32 \- 1.
Never zero, so applications can initialize a cache of the epoch to zero
to ensure they reseed the next time they check whether it is different
from the stored epoch.
