From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 5:50:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lexis-nexis.com (mx02.lexis-nexis.com [207.25.178.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C4D37C0A1 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 05:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthew.temple@lexis-nexis.com) Received: from lexis-nexis.com (mailgate [138.12.44.45]) by lexis-nexis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA12804; Thu, 25 May 2000 08:50:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com by lexis-nexis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA03990; Thu, 25 May 2000 08:49:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 25 May 2000 08:48:47 -0400 Message-ID: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1E8@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com> From: "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" To: "'Ben Smithurst'" , "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" Cc: "'Dan Nelson'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:48:45 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good idea. I think I will. What's send-pr? > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Smithurst [SMTP:ben@scientia.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 5:44 PM > To: TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) > Cc: 'Dan Nelson'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; MITZKA, JOHN (LNG) > Subject: Re: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility > > TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) wrote: > > > Does anyone on this list know if FreeBSD has such a utility/libraries, > > Not that I know of. I don't see it in the ports either. The source > code for the Linux version is available. Why don't you make a port of > it yourself and submit it using send-pr? > > > or am I simply doomed to be subjected to more of Mr. Nelson's > > tangental smarty-pants replies about jot random number generation? > > As that gives similar results to the Linux version, it's unclear why > you're complaining about it. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message