I'm trying to understand the algorithm for generating uuids or guids. I was hoping to use my perl debugger to single step thru the algorithm that creates guids/uuids. So I downloaded the tar.gz files at
http://search.cpan.org/src/AGOLOMSH/Data-UUID-0.11/UUID.pm http://search.cpan.org/~phenson/DCE-Perl-0.21/UUID/UUID.pm http://search.cpan.org/~braam/UUID-0.02/UUID.pm I cannot find the source code for the algorithm. I was surprised to learn that some or all of these called C. I would think a simple algorithm like this could be implemented easily in perl. Well, C source code is fine too but I still cannot find the algorithm in C source code either. There are .xs files that look like C with a lot of macros but no algorithm. Can someone help me understand where the source code to the algorithm is (preferably in perl)? Also, I as assuming there was a standard algorithm for guids/uuids. Any information on this will be welcomed (but it might be a little off topic). Thanks, Siegfried -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
