[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] Add support for an XKCD mode

Roman Bogorodskiy bogorodskiy at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 11:53:03 UTC 2016


  Jiri Denemark wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:30:26 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The XKCD website primarily publishes comics, but many of them
> > are in fact design blueprints showing best practice for software
> > developers. A number of these designs are applicable to libvirt
> > and will provide valuable features to our users. This series
> > introduces a new framework for enabling these enhanced features
> > via a so called "XKCD mode". They are not enabled by default
> > since we want to retain backwards compatibility for existing
> > users. Users of libvirt though are encouraged to enable as many
> > of the features as possible for their deployments.
> > 
> > Daniel P. Berrange (4):
> >   xkcd: add initial framework to enabling XKCD mode
> >   xkcd: enable more efficient random number generator
> >   xkcd: enabling pre-processing of XML with perl
> >   xkcd: generate secure rememberable qcow2 passwords
> > 
> >  src/Makefile.am                 |  2 +
> >  src/libvirt_private.syms        |  4 ++
> >  src/util/virrandom.c            | 26 ++++++++-----
> >  src/util/virstorageencryption.c | 47 ++++++++++++----------
> >  src/util/virxkcd.c              | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  src/util/virxkcd.h              | 31 +++++++++++++++
> >  src/util/virxml.c               | 35 ++++++++++++++---
> >  7 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 src/util/virxkcd.c
> >  create mode 100644 src/util/virxkcd.h
> 
> ACK and safe for the release.

Are you sure? A complete lack of unit tests for this worries me a
little.

Roman Bogorodskiy




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