On 24 November 2010 20:29, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
yeah, i know. i meant implement a plugin with rest methods (if they
are available, like using /dev/random etc)

> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>>
>> 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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