Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 19.05.2005, 19:08 +0200 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > attached you find a CreateGUID implementation that creates (time-based) > > guids. These follow a low-high approach, with a random part and a time > > part. > > > > If available, uses libuuid.so.1 and /dev/urandom. Otherwhise uses manual > > implementation (which sucks - just test by while true ; > > do ./createguid ; done and behold all the equal guids) as a fallback. > > > > The function should be pretty usable *if* libuuid.so.1 is available, and > > pretty dangerous if not. I'll not be improving the fallback further > > though. Someone wants to step in? > > You're a bit too late, unfortunately. I have a native object pascal > CreateGUID > function ready. It mimics libuuid on Linux (uses mac address and time), and
That's great :) > uses native windows calls on Win32. For other platforms it uses simply random > numbers if no 'real' implementation is available. > > I was just waiting for 2.0 to settle down to check it in. I see > > I will do so shortly, so if you're patient, you'll see it appear quite soon. okay > Michael. cheers, Danny -- www.keyserver.net key id A334AEA6
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