From: deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:20:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: As discussed with beck, tweak the wording for getentropy slightly so
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As discussed with beck, tweak the wording for getentropy slightly so
that a certain kind of people don't go bonkers over "what is entropy".
it is what it is, input to PRNG's.
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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2
index 307d467c4f0..27f0a63413c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: getentropy.2,v 1.5 2014/07/13 21:39:00 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: getentropy.2,v 1.6 2014/07/18 18:20:17 deraadt Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2014 Theo de Raadt
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $
 .Dt GETENTROPY 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -26,9 +26,8 @@
 .Fn getentropy "void *buf" "size_t buflen"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Nm
-fills a buffer with high-quality seed-grade entropy, which can
-be used as input for process-context random
-generators like
+fills a buffer with high-quality entropy, which can be used
+as input for process-context pseudorandom generators like
 .Xr arc4random 3 .
 .Pp
 The maximum buffer size permitted is 256 bytes.