[fpc-devel] CreateGUID implementation attached

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.05.2005, 19:08 +0200 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> > 
> > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > attached you find a CreateGUID implementation that creates (time-based)
> > > guids. These follow a low-high approach, with a random part and a time
> > > part.
> > > 
> > > If available, uses libuuid.so.1 and /dev/urandom. Otherwhise uses manual
> > > implementation (which sucks - just test by while true ;
> > > do ./createguid ; done and behold all the equal guids) as a fallback.
> > > 
> > > The function should be pretty usable *if* libuuid.so.1 is available, and
> > > pretty dangerous if not. I'll not be improving the fallback further
> > > though. Someone wants to step in?
> > 
> > You're a bit too late, unfortunately. I have a native object pascal CreateGUID 
> > function ready. It mimics libuuid on Linux (uses mac address and time), and 
> 
> That's great :)
> 
> > uses native windows calls on Win32. For other platforms it uses simply random 
> > numbers if no 'real' implementation is available.
> > 
> > I was just waiting for 2.0 to settle down to check it in.
> 
> I see
> 
> > 
> > I will do so shortly, so if you're patient, you'll see it appear quite soon.
> 
> okay

It's committed in SubVersion.

Michael.