> On BSD, /dev/urandom is used to generate a random GUID

No, that was my first hunch, but it turned out to be a single
kernel call. (FreeBSD 5.x+)
 
> on all other platforms, the system unit random() function 
> is used. 

This is FreeBSD4 inclusive.

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