On 11/24/2010 9:31 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> Take a look at
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt
>
> it contains description and code, enough to implement UUID generator
> from scratch.

You might want to have a look at the code first, because, lo and behold! 
UUIDGenerator implements version 4 of said spec :-) Not only that, it 
*automatically* kicks in when the plugin isn't present.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

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> On 24 November 2010 19:22, Igor Stasenko<siguctua at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 24 November 2010 18:39, David T. Lewis<lewis at mail.msen.com>  wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 05:53:39PM +0100, Tim Felgentreff wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Updating from the latest released image (10548) to trunk on the Cog VM
>>>> crashes on Linux upon calling UUID>>initialize. Apparently, problems
>>>> with libuuid and the Squeak VM are known, but is there a solution,
>>>> besides rebuilding without the plugin and having the primitive fail?
>>>
>>> The available information is here:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7358
>>>
>>> As near as I can tell, we are faced with two competing bugs in various
>>> Linux distributions:
>>>
>>> 1) Some Linux distributions have a buggy libuuid library. The bug is
>>> apparently not triggered when the UUID plugin is compiled internally,
>>> hence the internal UUIDPlugin in Unix/Linux/Cog VMs.
>>>
>>> 2) More recently, some other 64-bit Linux distributions have accidentally
>>> left out libuuid from their 32-but runtime libraries. On these platforms,
>>> the VM will not run if it includes an internal UUIDPlugin.
>>>
>>> So if the plugin is compiled externally, one group of Linux users
>>> will get VM crashes due to bug #1. And if it is compiled internally,
>>> a different group of Linux users will get VM crashes due to bug #2.
>>>
>>> Frankly, I'm inclined to suggest removing the UUIDPlugin entirely
>>> from the Linux VMs until the various distros stabilize. Anyone have
>>> a better idea?
>>>
>>
>> Another option is to implement own uuid generator and be no longer
>> dependent from
>> buggy external stuff.
>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>
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