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From: Tom Musta <tommusta@gmail.com>
To: Magnus Reftel <reftel@spotify.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] linux-user: Let user specify random seed
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:43:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5436E55C.4070409@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412843785-960-1-git-send-email-reftel@spotify.com>

On 10/9/2014 3:36 AM, Magnus Reftel wrote:
> This patch introduces the -seed command line option and the
> QEMU_RAND_SEED environment variable for setting the random seed, which
> is used for the AT_RANDOM ELF aux entry.
> 
> This is an updated version of the patch, addressing review comments
> from Eric Blake.
> 

Magnus:

Possibly a dumb question:  In a regular environment, is there a way for a user to control the 16 bytes of random data pointed to by AT_RANDOM?  (I cannot find one).

If not, why is this capability needed in Linux user mode?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-09 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-09  8:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] linux-user: Let user specify random seed Magnus Reftel
2014-10-09  8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] " Magnus Reftel
2014-10-09 15:27   ` Eric Blake
2014-10-09 19:10     ` Magnus Reftel
2014-10-09 19:43 ` Tom Musta [this message]
2014-10-10  8:00   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Magnus Reftel

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