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[Xen-API] [xen-api-libs.hg:PATCH 0 of 2] Uuid stuff.



This is not ready for merging, but I'd like some comments on the code
and direction.

Besides the minor clean-up (is more needed?) it introduces a new
function, make_uuid_random, which reads from /dev/random (and
therefore may block).

The plan is to change make_uuid to use the PRNG in Random, and then
modify xapi so that make_uuid_random is used where it's necessary
(creating pool secret and sessions, what else?).

Is this a direction that's worthwhile to pursue?
Would a make_uuid_urandom also be necessary?  (E.g. getting session
UUIDs from /dev/random might be too heavy weight for something that's
that short-lived.)

2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
uuid/uuid.ml  |   38 +++++++++-----------------------------
uuid/uuid.mli |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------

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