From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 13:53:25 EST
--- Marc Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> it is normally used as input for the random number
> generator. When no
> mac address is available, just fallback to some
> default number...
Right... I guess the questions are better stated as
follows:
1) What is the maths/logic behind document comparison
and revision tracking?
2) Why is it implemented using (supposedly) UUIDs?
3) Why is (pseudo) randomness seemingly a requirement
of the process?
Why we would use a MAC address to build a UUID makes
complete sense to me. Why we need UUIDs does not. We
probably don't want to use N pseudo-random int32s to
build a "MAC address". Concretely, getting the MAC
address on various *NIX boxes requires substantially
different and sometimes complex code.
Dom
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