On 1/16/07, David Lee Lambert <as4109@wayne.edu> wrote: The problem with a random UUID generator is: where do you get the random
numbers? However, there are really only two platforms to worry about:
POSIX (use libuuid) and Win32 (there is probably a Win32 function to generate
it, since MS SQL Server and the .NET API both provide GUID generation; but
I can't seem to find it by searching the Web).
Anyway, the uniqueidentifier project on GBorg seems like it has what you
want: a user-defined type, and a generator. I think the main thing it
needs is some code cleanup/robustness and a lot of production testing.
FYI...
Apache Portable Runtime has a uuid generator, see apr-util package, function is apr_uuid_get(). Underlying it uses one of the following:
a) uuid_create (FreeBSD via libc)
b) uuid_generate (from libuuid)
c) UuidCreate (for Win32)
d) Apache version of a UUID generator
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Chad
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