From: "Greg Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: Apache-1.3: question about mod_unique_id
> On Windows, for 1.3, you can simply call CoCreateGuid() and be done with it.
> And the Windows guids are unique.
Probably doesn't make too much sense for 1.3 - it breaks 95.
> [ I seem to recall this thread started as a result of a Windows problem;
> UUIDs would solve it for that platform. maybe it was Netware? ]
Actually, all threaded servers, I count 4-5 flavors.
> Regarding APR's UUID solution: if you think it isn't "good enough", then I'd
> be interested in knowing. It collects a decent amount of see and then hashes
> it to get a "random" result. If there is more seed data that we could use,
> then we should.
This seems very worthwhile across platforms for 2.0 ;)
From: "Greg Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 7:39 PM
> For *Windows*, why bother? Use a UUID. You *know* it is unique.
>
> For other platforms, the discussion could be longer, but I don't understand
> why you would want to tie yourself in a knot when CoCreateGuid() is just
> calling out to solve this.
To avoid three different solutions for something noone wants to spend the time on?
Solve it once for all for 1.3 - and be done with that code branch :-)
