Re: [PHP4BETA] UUIDs
| From: | Andrey Zmievski | Date: | Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:27:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] UUIDs | ||
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Kristian Ko%hntopp wrote:
> I was under the impression that they are reproducible numbers that pertain
to
> a specific hardware, i.e. a windows installation or an ext2 filesystem.
>
> Still the "reproducible" thing worries me.
There are several algorithms to generate UUIDs. One of them involves current
timestamp and Ethernet address of the network card. You may have been
thinking of something like that. But there are other algorithms you can
choose from.
-Andrey
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