On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Squ Aire wrote:
Yes I was aware of this method. However, according to the docs it only guarantees uniqueness for a given process, and doesn't guarantee it will be "globally" unique, if you know what I mean. Thanks for the suggestion though.
The documentation for -[NSProcessInfo globallyUniqueString] does guarantee that the string will be globally unique. (The word global is right in the name.)
What it it doesn't guarantee, though, is that it will give you back a UUID string (which is generally meant to be a specific kind of globally unique string.)
-globallyUniqueString returns UUID strings today, but this wasn't always true. (And since it isn't guaranteed by the docs, may not be true in the future.)
If you specifically need a UUID string, you should probably use CFUUID. - Jim _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
