Re: [fpc-pascal] GUIDs under FreeBSD don't seem very random

2016-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-01-05 23:56, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > From Wikipedia (GUID vs UUID) > - > The term GUID usually refers to Microsoft's implementation of the > Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) standard. Reading further on Wikipedia I now understand you get different version

[fpc-pascal] GUIDs under FreeBSD don't seem very random

2016-01-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I use GUID's as my primary key values in databases. tiOPF uses the following FPC functions to do this CreateGUID(lGUID); Result := GUIDToString(lGUID); I just noticed this difference between two of my databases. The following GUID's were generated a few minutes ago by FPC (under FreeBSD) wh