Re: UUID

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Forgot to mention: https://pecl.php.net/package/uuid > 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 -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org