On Tue, 08/02 15:45, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Fam Zheng" <f...@redhat.com> > > To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > Cc: f...@redhat.com, berra...@redhat.com, pbonz...@redhat.com, > > kw...@redhat.com, mre...@redhat.com, > > mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com, arm...@redhat.com, s...@weilnetz.de, > > qemu-bl...@nongnu.org > > Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 11:18:32 AM > > Subject: [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API > > > > A number of different places across the code base use CONFIG_UUID. Some > > of them are soft dependency, some are not built if libuuid is not > > available, some come with dummy fallback, some throws runtime error. > > > > It is hard to maintain, and hard to reason for users. > > > > Since UUID is a simple standard with only a small number of operations, > > it is cleaner to have a central support in libqemuutil. This patch adds > > qemu_uuid_* the functions so that all uuid users in the code base can > > rely on. Except for qemu_uuid_generate which is new code, all other > > functions are just copy from existing fallbacks from other files. > > How is g_random_* seeded?
According to glib doc: > GLib changed the seeding algorithm for the pseudo-random number generator > Mersenne Twister, as used by GRand. The urandom source is /dev/urandom (or time based if unavailable). (RFC 4122 explicitly accepts pseudo-random.) Fam
