[fpc-devel] I get duplicate GUIDs under Linux

[Marco van de Voort]

> GUID's are supposed to be very unique! Wikipedia says something like:
> Create a billion every second for 10 years or something before you
> deplete the range.
> So what is wrong with my code or maybe the Free Pascal implementation?

I quicktested the FreeBSD implementation, verified it used the syscall, and
the first half million are no problem under either 6.3 or (the very recent)
7.0