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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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