Complete NetBSD compatibility

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libbutl/uuid-freebsd.cxx b/libbutl/uuid-freebsd.cxx
index 567c241..daf680b 100644
--- a/libbutl/uuid-freebsd.cxx
+++ b/libbutl/uuid-freebsd.cxx
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ namespace butl
     //
     // Specifically (and as of FreeBSD 11.2), we get a version 1 (MAC/time-
     // based) UUID and it seems there is provision for getting the time in a
-    // collision-safe:
+    // collision-safe manner:
     //
     // "According to the algorithm of generating time-based UUIDs, this will
     //  also force a new random clock sequence, thereby increasing the
@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ namespace butl
     // smart enough not to start return random UUIDs without a good source of
     // randomness, at least not by default.
     //
+    // When it comes to NetBSD, there is this HISTORY note in the uuidgen(2)
+    // man page:
+    //
+    // "It was changed to use version 4 UUIDs, i.e. randomly generated UUIDs,
+    // in NetBSD 8.0."
+    //
+    // And we will assume random NetBSD UUIDs are strong.
+    //
     struct ::uuid d;
 
     if (uuidgen (&d, 1) != 0)