On Tuesday 19 November 2002 11:48 am, I wrote:
> We should probably have a plugin that does this properly.

There is a UUIDPlugin that's not complete (under Linux, anyway).
We could flush it out on the various platforms with platform-specific code.

The platform-specific code could get the MAC address(es)
and use it/them as part of a standard UUID generation scheme.
Isn't there a standard for this anyway?

On Linux we have libuuid, which is part of the e2fsprogs package:

       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       void uuid_generate(uuid_t out);
       void uuid_generate_random(uuid_t out);
       void uuid_generate_time(uuid_t out);

DESCRIPTION
       The uuid_generate function creates a  new  universally  unique  identifier
       (UUID).   The uuid will be generated based on high-quality randomness from
       /dev/urandom, if available.  If it is not  available,  then  uuid_generate
       will  use  an alternative algorithm which uses the current time, the local
       ethernet MAC address (if available), and random  data  generated  using  a
       pseudo-random generator.

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