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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:45:46 -0400 (EDT)


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> Subject: [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API
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> 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?

Paolo



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