uuid generation on linux boxes

2003-11-06 Thread Ian Holsman
I have a issue with a linux box not having enough entropy and hanging on a call to apr_uuid_get (as it calls /dev/random) I was wondering why we don't just use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid and use that for our uuid? also.. as a side topic to the linux gurus out there.. is there any way of generat

Re: uuid generation on linux boxes

2003-11-06 Thread C. Michael Pilato
Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a issue with a linux box not having enough entropy and hanging > on a call to apr_uuid_get (as it calls /dev/random) > > I was wondering why we don't just use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid > and use that for our uuid? If you are building APR yourse

Re: uuid generation on linux boxes

2003-11-07 Thread Ben Laurie
Ian Holsman wrote: > I have a issue with a linux box not having enough entropy and hanging on > a call to apr_uuid_get (as it calls /dev/random) > > I was wondering why we don't just use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid > and use that for our uuid? Presumably because no-one's made APR aware of it :-