[fpc-devel] I get duplicate GUIDs under Linux

[Vincent Snijders]

Daniël Mantione schreef:
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> 
> 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.

It is not a problem anymore. Call CreateGuid once, set the randseed and you get 
predictable guids afterwards.

Vincent