Module Name: src
Committed By: riastradh
Date: Tue Apr 6 22:12:16 UTC 2021
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man4: rnd.4
Log Message:
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.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.38 -r1.39 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/share/man/man4/rnd.4
diff -u src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.38 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.39
--- src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.38 Fri Feb 12 01:52:09 2021
+++ src/share/man/man4/rnd.4 Tue Apr 6 22:12:16 2021
@@ -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 @@ This ioctl can be used only once per boo
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 {
