[fpc-devel] I get duplicate GUIDs under Linux
    Daniël Mantione 
    daniel.mantione at freepascal.org
       
    Mon Jun  2 10:52:58 CEST 2008
    
    
  
Op Mon, 2 Jun 2008, schreef Florian Klaempfl:
>> all, if you use Random(), you want something random, yet many
>> developers make the common mistakes of not calling Randomize() or
>> calling it to often.  If FPC handled that for us, nobody would every
>> make those mistakes again!
>
> People might want to start with a defined randseed to reproduce behaviour.
This implies createguid should not call randomize automatically either, it 
prevents you having deterministic behaviour, especially in a program where 
guids and normal use of the randomizer are combined.
Daniël
    
    
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