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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man9 New sentence, new line. Fix some markup. Bump...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/d740eb1122e9
branches:  trunk
changeset: 772096:d740eb1122e9
user:      wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Sat Dec 17 21:25:12 2011 +0000

description:
New sentence, new line. Fix some markup. Bump date for previous.

diffstat:

 share/man/man9/rnd.9 |  20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diffs (51 lines):

diff -r 2a44fa80f962 -r d740eb1122e9 share/man/man9/rnd.9
--- a/share/man/man9/rnd.9      Sat Dec 17 21:24:40 2011 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man9/rnd.9      Sat Dec 17 21:25:12 2011 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: rnd.9,v 1.19 2011/12/17 20:05:38 tls Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: rnd.9,v 1.20 2011/12/17 21:25:12 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
 .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd September 16, 2008
+.Dd December 17, 2011
 .Dt RND 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
 .Xr cprng 9
 and
 .Xr rnd 4
-.Pa (/dev/random) interfaces.
+.Pa ( /dev/random )
+interfaces.
 .Pp
 Ideally the first argument
 .Fa rnd_source
@@ -196,16 +197,15 @@
 Folding the data in half prevents the caller to derive the
 actual hash of the pool, preventing some attacks.
 .Pp
-.Pp
-In the NetBSD kernel, values should be extracted from the entropy
-pool
+In the
+.Nx
+kernel, values should be extracted from the entropy pool
 .Em only
 via the
 .Xr cprng 9
-interface.  Direct access to the entropy pool is unsupported and
-may be dangerous.  There is no supported API for direct access to
-the output of the entropy pool.
-.Pp
+interface.
+Direct access to the entropy pool is unsupported and may be dangerous.
+There is no supported API for direct access to the output of the entropy pool.
 .\" .Sh ERRORS
 .Sh FILES
 These functions are declared in src/sys/sys/rnd.h and defined in



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