Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Thu May 7 12:55:06 UTC 2020
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/gen: getentropy.3
Log Message:
Fix macro usage. Fix typo. New sentence, new line.
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Index: src/lib/libc/gen/getentropy.3
diff -u src/lib/libc/gen/getentropy.3:1.1 src/lib/libc/gen/getentropy.3:1.2
--- src/lib/libc/gen/getentropy.3:1.1 Wed May 6 16:17:36 2020
+++ src/lib/libc/gen/getentropy.3 Thu May 7 12:55:06 2020
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: getentropy.3,v 1.1 2020/05/06 16:17:36 nia Exp $ $
+.\" $NetBSD: getentropy.3,v 1.2 2020/05/07 12:55:06 wiz Exp $ $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@
.Ft int
.Fn getentropy "void *buf" "size_t buflen"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Pp
The
.Fn getentropy
function fills a buffer with high quality random data, suitable for seeding
-cryptographically secure psuedorandom number generators.
+cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generators.
.Pp
.Fn getentropy
is only intended for seeding random number generators and is not intended
-for use by regular code which simply needs secure random data. For this
-purpose, please use
+for use by regular code which simply needs secure random data.
+For this purpose, please use
.Xr arc4random 3 .
.Pp
The maximum value for
@@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ variable
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn getentropy
-function returns 0 on success, and -1 if an error occurred.
+function returns 0 on success, and \-1 if an error occurred.
.Sh ERRORS
.Fn getentropy
will succeed unless:
@@ -75,6 +74,7 @@ The
argument points to an invalid memory address.
.It Bq Er EIO
Too many bytes were requested.
+.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arc4random 3 ,
.Xr rnd 4
