Module Name: src
Committed By: riastradh
Date: Fri Feb 12 01:52:09 UTC 2021
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man4: rnd.4
Log Message:
rnd(4): Consistently call it the `global pool'.
The `ready pool' is a term I used in a draft that I never committed.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.37 -r1.38 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4
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Modified files:
Index: src/share/man/man4/rnd.4
diff -u src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.37 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.38
--- src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.37 Fri Jan 15 15:54:20 2021
+++ src/share/man/man4/rnd.4 Fri Feb 12 01:52:09 2021
@@ -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 @@ entropy of the adversary's state of know
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
