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authorMichael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-04-02 20:34:44 +0000
committerMichael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-04-02 20:34:44 +0000
commit0b3d7a56a7886f747ed0960a517fe95d2a856b39 (patch)
treec27c4e47f6599d5e556a67a4a2edfbedf22cd4fd /sys/dev/rnd.c
parente887df3c0f00c5060df6adca1eadfaa64cf038f8 (diff)
repair linuxisms tested on hppa, sparc, vax and i386; from Sven Dehmlow <sven_dehmlow@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/dev/rnd.c')
-rw-r--r--sys/dev/rnd.c23
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sys/dev/rnd.c b/sys/dev/rnd.c
index 11befa342ca..229cdd075bd 100644
--- a/sys/dev/rnd.c
+++ b/sys/dev/rnd.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: rnd.c,v 1.68 2004/04/02 20:17:45 mickey Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: rnd.c,v 1.69 2004/04/02 20:34:43 mickey Exp $ */
/*
* rnd.c -- A strong random number generator
@@ -192,28 +192,29 @@
* echo "Saving random seed..."
* dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/random-seed count=1
*
- * For example, on many Linux systems, the appropriate scripts are
- * usually /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.d/rc.0, respectively.
+ * For example, on OpenBSD systems, the appropriate scripts are
+ * usually /etc/rc.local and /etc/rc.shutdown, respectively.
*
* Effectively, these commands cause the contents of the entropy pool
* to be saved at shutdown time and reloaded into the entropy pool at
* start-up. (The 'dd' in the addition to the bootup script is to
* make sure that /etc/random-seed is different for every start-up,
- * even if the system crashes without executing rc.0.) Even with
+ * even if the system crashes without executing rc.shutdown) Even with
* complete knowledge of the start-up activities, predicting the state
* of the entropy pool requires knowledge of the previous history of
* the system.
*
- * Configuring the /dev/random driver under Linux
+ * Configuring the random(4) driver under OpenBSD
* ==============================================
*
- * The /dev/random driver under Linux uses minor numbers 8 and 9 of
- * the /dev/mem major number (#1). So if your system does not have
- * /dev/random and /dev/urandom created already, they can be created
- * by using the commands:
+ * The special files for the random(4) driver should have been created
+ * during the installation process. However, if your system does not have
+ * /dev/random and /dev/[s|u|p|a]random created already, they can be created
+ * by using the MAKEDEV(8) script in /dev:
*
- * mknod /dev/random c 1 8
- * mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9
+ * /dev/MAKEDEV random
+ *
+ * Check MAKEDEV for information about major and minor numbers.
*
* Acknowledgements:
* =================