Re: [PATCH] virrandom: make virRandomInitialize an automatic one-shot

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On 08/06/2012 03:58 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 05:26:58PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> All callers used the same initialization seed (well, the new
>> viratomictest forgot to look at getpid()); so we might as well
>> make this value automatic.  And while it may feel like we are
>> giving up functionality, I documented how to get it back in the
>> unlikely case that you actually need to debug with a fixed
>> pseudo-random sequence.  I left that crippled by default, so
>> that a stray environment variable doesn't cause a lack of
>> randomness to become a security issue.
>>
> 
> ACK

Thanks; pushed.

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