Re: GUID/UUID Support

On 1/16/07, David Lee Lambert <as4109(at)wayne(dot)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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