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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-06-13 08:28:44 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-06-13 08:28:44 +0000
commita62cd0365685f0701582cdb26c0b285a42ca9a6f (patch)
tree25831772890c810c0b187133d59b3792f0f54244 /lib
parentab00e7d34f212180def1dba24a0dc6e3fed358f5 (diff)
delete a lie; replace with a truth
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sysctl.311
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index 5812dd72a44..7560b4814a8 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.235 2014/05/07 08:14:59 mpi Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.236 2014/06/13 08:28:43 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 7 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 13 2014 $
.Dt SYSCTL 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -476,10 +476,9 @@ The maximum number of bytes allowed among the arguments to
Returns a maximum of 256 random bytes from the kernel using the
.Xr arc4random 9
function.
-This can be useful if
-.Pa /dev/arandom
-is not available (see
-.Xr random 4 ) .
+Consider using
+.Xr getentropy 2
+directly.
.It Dv KERN_BOOTTIME
A
.Li struct timeval