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.Dd November 13, 2018
.Dt prng_seedctl 1
.Os Darwin
.Sh NAME
.Nm prng_seedctl
.Nd Loads and updates the kernel PRNG seed file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
loads the kernel PRNG seed file at
.Nm /var/db/SystemEntropyCache
(if present) and writes it to
.Nm /dev/random .
It then calls
.Xr getentropy 2
to get a new seed to update the seed file.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
The
.Nm
utility exits 0 on success and greater than 0 on error.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getentropy 2 ,
.Xr random 4