[fpc-devel] I get duplicate GUIDs under Linux

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Daniël Mantione wrote:

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> Op Mon, 2 Jun 2008, schreef Florian Klaempfl:
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> > > 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.

Creating GUIDs should never be deterministic.. ?

Michael.