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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:11:13 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, <cvs-committers@freebsd.org>, <cvs-all@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc Makefile.inc src/lib/libc/uuid        Makefile.inc uuid.3 uuid.h uuid_compare.c uuid_create.c         uuid_create_nil.c uuid_equal.c uuid_from_string.c uuid_hash.c       
Message-ID:  <20021030100924.O43274-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210292325240.89254-100000@root.org>

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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Nate Lawson wrote:

> Why is this going into libc and not something like libdce?

I don't think anyone is planning to implement DCE. Decent unique
identifiers are useful far beyond DCE. I use them for a portable M$ COM
compatible system, the ia64 architecture uses them for many purposes
including its disk partitioning system.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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