On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 12:00:30PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > Is this the best way to deprecate support for the srandom and urandom > devices? The devices themselves are going to stick around for a while, > but we only need to tell people about one, right? >
if you are going to leave the MLINKS for srandom and urandom, i think you should not kill the stuff, and instead say that they are the same as whatever you've changed it to. otherwise kill the MLINKS. jmc > Index: random.4 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/tedu/cvs/src/share/man/man4/random.4,v > retrieving revision 1.22 > diff -u -r1.22 random.4 > --- random.4 10 Oct 2008 20:13:29 -0000 1.22 > +++ random.4 2 Oct 2010 15:57:32 -0000 > @@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ > .Os > .Sh NAME > .Nm random , > -.Nm srandom , > -.Nm urandom , > .Nm arandom > .Nd random data source devices > .Sh SYNOPSIS > @@ -43,22 +41,10 @@ > Entropy data is collected from system activity (like disk and > network device interrupts and such), and then run through various > hash or message digest functions to generate the output. > -.Bl -hang -width /dev/srandomX > +.Bl -hang -width /dev/arandomX > .It Pa /dev/random > This device is reserved for future support of hardware > random generators. > -.It Pa /dev/srandom > -Strong random data. > -This device returns reliable random data. > -If sufficient entropy is not currently available (i.e., the entropy > -pool quality starts to run low), the driver pauses while more of > -such data is collected. > -The entropy pool data is converted into output data using MD5. > -.It Pa /dev/urandom > -Same as above, but does not guarantee the data to be strong. > -The entropy pool data is converted into output data using MD5. > -When the entropy pool quality runs low, the driver will continue > -to output data. > .It Pa /dev/arandom > As required, entropy pool data re-seeds an ARC4 generator, > which then generates high-quality pseudo-random output data. > @@ -69,10 +55,8 @@ > providing a second level of ARC4 hashed data. > .El > .Sh FILES > -.Bl -tag -width /dev/srandom -compact > +.Bl -tag -width /dev/arandom -compact > .It Pa /dev/random > -.It Pa /dev/srandom > -.It Pa /dev/urandom > .It Pa /dev/arandom > .El > .Sh SEE ALSO
