> Alan, are you sure you're not talking about Helge Deller's attempt to > push a Time-based UUID generator into the kernel because you can get > duplicates from the current userspace library?
Yes > I've not heard of *any* claim where the kernel uuid random generator > has been returning duplicates. Then the original reports got lost somewhere. The Fedora tools use a kernel random uuid for system identifiers (to preserve anonymity while allowing system profiles etc to be generated and to know which are duplicates). We seen a huge number of duplicates for certain values: >From Mike McGrath (added to Cc) > Here's the top 5: > > 266 28caf2c3-9766-4fe1-9e4c-d6b0ba8a0132 > 336 810e7126-1c69-4aff-b8b1-9db0fa8aa15a > 402 c8dbb9d3-a9bd-4ba6-b92e-4a294ba5a95f > 884 06e84493-e024-44b1-9b32-32d78af04039 > 931 e2b67e1d-e325-4740-b938-795addb45280 > > The left number is times this month someone has submitted a profile with > that UUID. If we take the last one as an example has come from over 800 > IP's in the last 20 days. It seems very unlikely that one person would > find his way to 800 different IP's this month. Let me know if you'd > like more. -- 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/