From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Time-based RFC 4122 UUID generator
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:56:04 -0800
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> > I use libuuid and I assume libuuid uses some uuid generator support
> > from the kernel.
>
> No, it does not. It's pure userspace and may produce double UUIDs.
>
> > libuuid comes from a package that Ted's maintain IIRC.
> >
> > I (my company) use uuid to uniquely identify objects in a distributed
> > database.
> > [Proprietary closed source stuff].
>
> Same here.
>
> Helge

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. Anyone who knowingly
uses such a UUID generator should be publically shamed.

Rather than (or at the very least, in addition to) adding a new UUID
generator, let's fix the one(s) we have.

DS


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