From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Geert Martin Ijewski <gm.ijewski@web.de>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] error: qcrypto_random_bytes() tried to read from /dev/[u]random, even on windows
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:39:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170424163936.GE7705@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f92490f5-a09c-0f11-4ea5-f09969f78870@web.de>
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 06:33:26PM +0200, Geert Martin Ijewski wrote:
> > We can have the existing qcrypto_init() call a qcrypto_random_init()
> > method to do the one-time initialization task, since that's already
> > required to run early in order to initialize gnutls when we use it.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to also move the unix initalization to that function?
Yep, we can do that.
> And what about deinitalization? Though because that handle needs to stay
> valid throughout the whole lifetime of QEMU anyway, that probably can be
> ignored and taken care of by the OS
Correct, there's no need for any de-init if we have a global handle, as it
is needed until QEMU exits.
Regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-24 12:17 [Qemu-devel] error: qcrypto_random_bytes() tried to read from /dev/[u]random, even on windows GM.Ijewski
2017-04-24 12:50 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-04-24 13:30 ` Peter Maydell
2017-04-24 13:36 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-04-24 13:52 ` Peter Maydell
2017-04-24 13:57 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-04-24 14:05 ` Peter Maydell
2017-04-24 15:41 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-04-24 15:42 ` Peter Maydell
2017-04-24 15:52 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-04-24 16:33 ` Geert Martin Ijewski
2017-04-24 16:39 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
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