[libvirt] [PATCH] util: Make sure random data is initialized when in virRandom

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Oct 13 13:22:42 UTC 2009


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:32:14AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> When writing some tests, I mistakenly attempted to auto-generate a UUID,
> which caused a segfault: virRandom was being used without calling
> virRandomInitialize. Make sure this case can't happen.

I don't much like this as an approach - it would be nicer to put
it into the tests/testutil.c file where we already call the 
virThreadInitialize & virErrorInitialize functions

Daniel
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