David Schwartz wrote: > Any UUID generator that can produce duplicate UUIDs with probability > significantly less than purely random UUIDs is so badly broken that it > should not ever be used. Anyone who finds such a UUID generator should > immediately either fix it or throw it on the junk heap.
That's what my patch is about: Solve the problem at it's root. > Anyone who > knowingly uses such a UUID generator should be publically shamed. The problem is that on Linux there is currently no time-based UUID generator which really solves the problem. Good (bad?) thing is: Other UNIXes aren't better either. > Rather than (or at the very least, in addition to) adding a new UUID > generator, let's fix the one(s) we have. Some things aren't fixable with userspace only. At least _some_ kind of help is needed from the kernel. Why not providing one single working version directly from the kernel and dropping others you can't cleanly fix anyway ? Helge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
