On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Chris Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Leopard (and possibly earlier–I haven't checked), it appears that the > string returned is actually a UUID created with the CFUUID functions > concatenated with the process ID and the result of mach_absolute_time() so > the result isn't a proper UUID. I'm not sure where the host name is coming > from; it's possible that the CFUUID functions incorporate it somehow. >
The documentation doesn't specify any particular format for the string returned, only the information used to seed it---I wouldn't recommend depending on this method always returning a UUID incase this changes (even though it probably won't). Phil _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
