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From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] linux-user: Let user specify random seed
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To: Magnus Reftel <reftel@spotify.com>
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 03:17:33PM +0200, Magnus Reftel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Magnus Reftel <reftel@spotify.com> wrote:
> > linux-user uses the rand function for generating the value of the AT_RANDOM elf
> > aux vector entry, and explicitly seeds the random number generator with the
> > current time. This makes it impossible to reproduce runs that use the AT_RANDOM
> > bytes.
> >
> > This patch adds a command line option and a matching environment variable for
> > setting the random seed, so that the AT_RANDOM values can be predictable when
> > the user chooses. The default is still to seed the random number generator
> > with the current time.
> >
> > The difference from version 4 of the patch is only the addition of the line
> >   Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> > to the commit message.
 
> Ping.
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/399483/

Applied to linux-user que, thanks

Riku