[fpc-devel] I get duplicate GUIDs under Linux

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Thu May 29 13:28:04 CEST 2008


On 29 May 2008, at 13:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> The default implementation on Linux uses a random() call to generate a
> guid, combined with a timestamp, if I recall correctly.

Note that random() will always return the same sequence if you don't  
call randomize() once in the program.


Jonas 



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