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

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