Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 05:55:37PM CEST, I got a letter
where Simon Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 05:19:24AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> > Simon
> >
> > given that you have multiple machines creating files, how do you deal with
> > the idea of the same 'unique id' being assigned to different files by
> > different machines?
> >
> The id is a sha1 hash of the current time and the full path of the
> file being added - the chances of that being replicated without
> malicious intent is extremely small. There are other things that
> could be used, like the hostname, username of the person running the
> program, etc, but I don't really see them being necessary.
Why not just use UUID?
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Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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