X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blobdiff_plain/7e834d66daf58ac5f02719defdeb7ee46238dec2..0118528260d190c273d4e793f523e81db6dd8587:/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 index 0390be37a1..62092d4fd4 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 @@ -1,15 +1,7 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.12 (Pod::Simple 3.05) +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.23 (Pod::Simple 3.14) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== -.de Sh \" Subsection heading -.br -.if t .Sp -.ne 5 -.PP -\fB\\$1\fR -.PP -.. .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp @@ -48,17 +40,25 @@ . ds R" '' 'br\} .\" +.\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" .\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr for -.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index +.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. -.if \nF \{\ +.ie \nF \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . nr % 0 . rr F .\} +.el \{\ +. de IX +.. +.\} .\" .\" Accent mark definitions (@(#)ms.acc 1.5 88/02/08 SMI; from UCB 4.2). .\" Fear. Run. Save yourself. No user-serviceable parts. @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "RAND_egd 3" -.TH RAND_egd 3 "2007-10-24" "0.9.8g" "OpenSSL" +.TH RAND_egd 3 "2010-06-01" "1.0.0a" "OpenSSL" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -172,8 +172,11 @@ a socket interface through which entropy can be gathered in chunks up to Makefile.PL; make; make install\*(C'\fR to install). It is run as \fBegd\fR \&\fIpath\fR, where \fIpath\fR is an absolute path designating a socket. When \&\fIRAND_egd()\fR is called with that path as an argument, it tries to read -random bytes that \s-1EGD\s0 has collected. The read is performed in -non-blocking mode. +random bytes that \s-1EGD\s0 has collected. \fIRAND_egd()\fR retrieves entropy from the +daemon using the daemon's \*(L"non-blocking read\*(R" command which shall +be answered immediately by the daemon without waiting for additional +entropy to be collected. The write and read socket operations in the +communication are blocking. .PP Alternatively, the EGD-interface compatible daemon \s-1PRNGD\s0 can be used. It is available from