[fpc-devel] I get duplicate GUIDs under Linux

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Mon, 2 Jun 2008, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:

>>> 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.. ?

For debugging it can be usefull to have deterministic behaviour. But that 
was not the point. The point was, that a call to randomize "disrupts" the 
current state of the random generator. That means that if you use random 
outside guid creation, creating a guid can have unintended side effects on 
your random generation.

I agree it is nitpicking, but strictly speaking, it is a bad idea to 
automatically initialize the random generator.

Daniël