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Diffstat (limited to 'libbutl/uuid-freebsd.cxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | libbutl/uuid-freebsd.cxx | 10 |
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) |