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Re: missing read-only files uuid and boot_id
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge" <aleks at physik dot tu-berlin dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:57:34 +0400
- Subject: Re: missing read-only files uuid and boot_id
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- References: <0cee33598b90b23ccb89e5df7b70ac5b at physik dot tu-berlin dot de>
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Greetings, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge!
> to be more compatible to Linux environment, cygwin should provide 2 more
> virtual files:
> The read-only files uuid and boot_id contain random strings like
> 6fd5a44b-35f4-4ad4-a9b9-6b9be13e1fe9.
> The former is generated afresh for each read, the latter was generated
> once.
What problem exactly you want to solve with this?
Also, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4313422/generate-guid-in-windows-with-batch-file
> they could be easy provided and filled using /dev/urandom
That's not the right way to generate UUID.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 18.08.2014, <13:55>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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