On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:58:38 +0100 Helge Deller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Time based is not neccessarily random, but the kernel one is also clearly not random either. Alan - 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/
