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authorOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-11-29 20:35:01 +0000
committerOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-11-29 20:35:01 +0000
commite6cf2203c3c6c1ad45639c0943bea6d864dfeafd (patch)
treecf50cb0aba701f385c3abfefde4fe070bc19bbce /lib/libc/gen
parent00d084ff54acf90c2b35fa15920fbf190ea5c771 (diff)
document KERN_ARND better; ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sysctl.36
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index 5c85c21c9fc..a52768b23bb 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.145 2005/10/07 16:29:09 norby Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.146 2005/11/29 20:35:00 otto Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ information.
.Bl -column "KERNXCRYPTODEVALLOWSOFTXXX" "struct clockrateXXX" -offset indent
.It Sy Second level name Type Changeable
.It Dv KERN_ARGMAX No " integer no"
-.It Dv KERN_ARND No " integer no"
+.It Dv KERN_ARND No " char[] no"
.It Dv KERN_BOOTTIME No " struct timeval no"
.It Dv KERN_CCPU No " integer no"
.It Dv KERN_CLOCKRATE No " struct clockinfo no"
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ information.
The maximum number of bytes allowed among the arguments to
.Xr exec 3 .
.It Dv KERN_ARND
-Returns a random integer from the kernel
+Returns a maximum of 256 random bytes from the kernel using the
.Xr arc4random 9
function.
This can be useful if