On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2016 1:09 PM, "Sebastian Bergmann" <sebast...@php.net > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > In PHP 7.0 we introduced random_bytes() which wraps Linux's getrandom(2) > > as well as Windows's CryptGenRandom() and uses /dev/urandom as a > fallback. > > > > I think it would be great if we added a function that wraps > > /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid [2] and, if that exists, its equivalent on > > Windows to make the generation of UUIDs easy. > > > > Thoughts? > > Alternatively and maybe more portable, libuuid (should be part of all > decent systems too) could be a first choice. BSD also provides > compliant APIs as part of their libc > (https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uuid for freebsd f.e.). On > Windows > > I have partially implemented bindings for libuuid into the core, I can finish it if you will. --Leszek
