[CSDK Request] UUID function

Ruslan Zasukhin sunshine at public.kherson.ua
Mon Feb 10 10:12:33 CST 2003


on 2/10/03 4:10 AM, Eric Forget at forgete at cafederic.com wrote:

>> One thing I would like to have in 2.0 is a field method to create a
>> UUID (aka GUID). To do a good job with multiple databases and
>> synchronization it would really help if there was a reliable way to
>> generate a universally unique key.
>> 
>> MacOS has this function in Carbon, and I'm sure it must be in Windows
>> and Linux (uuidgen, I think).
> 
> If you want to be unique cross-platform you must use the same library, or at
> least knowing they use the same algorithm. Ruslan may use the one from
> CoreFoundation: its sources are available from Darwin and they work on
> Windows...

But then why I need built this into kernel ?

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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