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Minor language improvements. Note that they can't be changed

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by sysctl (I think they can be changed as a tuneable.)
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David Malone 2021-07-29 09:23:39 +01:00
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@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ state, and will block reads until it is seeded for the first time.
.Pp
To provide prompt access to the random device at boot time,
.Fx
automatically persists some entropy data in
automatically saves some entropy data in
.Pa /boot/entropy
for the loader to provide to the kernel.
for the
.Xr loader 8
to provide to the kernel.
Additional entropy is regularly saved in
.Pa /var/db/entropy .
This saved entropy is sufficient to unblock the random device on devices with
@ -95,7 +97,8 @@ Other than
.Va kern.random.fortuna.minpoolsize ,
and
.Va kern.random.harvest.mask ,
all settings are read-only.
all settings are read-only via
.Xr sysctl 8 .
.Pp
The
.Pa kern.random.fortuna.minpoolsize
@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ sysctls
can be used to confirm
settings in a human readable form.
Disabled items
in the latter item
in the latter
are listed in square brackets.
See
.Xr random_harvest 9