Re: UUID

On Apr 12, 2016 1:09 PM, "Sebastian Bergmann" <sebastian@php.net> wrote: > > In PHP 7.0 we introduced random_bytes() which wraps Linux's getrandom(2) > as well as Windows's CryptGenRandom() and uses /dev/urandom as a fallback. > > I think it would be great if we added a function that wraps > /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid [2] and, if that exists, its equivalent on > Windows to make the generation of UUIDs easy. > > Thoughts? Alternatively and maybe more portable, libuuid (should be part of all decent systems too) could be a first choice. BSD also provides compliant APIs as part of their libc (https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uuid for freebsd f.e.). On Windows UuidCreate and UuidToString should do it but I did not check their compliance yet. For the reference here: by compliant, I mean compliant with https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122 Cheers, Pierre