On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:16:14 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: > On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 11:46 am, Steve Harris wrote: > > The UID is not globally unique > > Well, I would prefer that it wasn't, but unfortunately that does > contradict what ladspa.h specifies and what real hosts expect.
Nothing in ladspa.h says that UIDs are globally unique - just the .so + label combination is guaranteed to be (system) unique. > (jack-rack and Rosegarden at least currently use the unique ID to > index plugins and will reject plugins with duplicate IDs.) Yep, and I think thier not alone. I only realised that UIDs were not globally unique recently myself. Its kinda obvious when you think about gnerated plugins, but its very confusing. Using some kind of self-authorising, URI-like scheme would have been a much better idea, but hey. Its a bit late now. - Steve
