On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote:

> In the use case where the same pbc exists in multiple places in a
> filesystem (or is renamed during run, or lives on a filesystem without
> a good definition of "same place"), it's necessary to detect when a
> load is redundant.
>
> I'm planning to require a UUID in the pbc header which would make each
> pbc distinguishable from every other pbc.  This would have no privacy
> issues if it's done right, because the pbcs are identified, not the
> parrot installations that create them.
>
> Any problems here?  Any suggestions for UUID code that's licensed
> appropriately for use in Parrot?

i know mod_parrot would benefit from this.  one question though -- if a
redundant UUID is found, will the internals make the decision to load/not
load or will that be up to the HLL/embedding code?

> --
> Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>

-jeff

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