On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 11:26:51PM -0700, William Orr wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I've added a small clarification around uuid's generated by
> `uuid_create`, since DCE 1.1 doesn't explicitly specify version
> 4 UUIDs.
>
> This implementation differs from FreeBSD's and bitrig's as they
> generate version 1 UUIDs, which warrants this clarfication.
>
> Thanks
>
> Index: lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3,v
> retrieving revision 1.5
> diff -u -p -r1.5 uuid.3
> --- lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3 20 Nov 2015 21:05:52 -0000 1.5
> +++ lib/libc/uuid/uuid.3 1 Oct 2018 02:07:42 -0000
> @@ -204,3 +204,6 @@ The
> and
> .Fn uuid_to_string
> functions are compatible with the DCE 1.1 RPC specification.
> +The UUIDs generated by
> +.Fn uuid_create
> +are Version 4 UUIDs, specified by section 4.4 of RFC 4122.
>
morning. hopefully someone can ok the content, but i'd be tempted to
trim the text slightly:
.Fn uuid_create
generates version 4 UUIDs,
specified by section 4.4 of RFC 4122.
jmc
