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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Let user specify random seed for linux-user


From: Magnus Reftel
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Let user specify random seed for linux-user
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 14:13:53 +0200

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.



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