Re: [Boost-users] portable uuid generator - seed

From: Oliver.Kowalke_at_[hidden]
Date: 2006-03-23 02:19:55

Hi Andy,
as you mentioned in t he source std::time(0) is not a good truly-random
seed.
Maybe you could use
boost::posix_time::microsec_clock::universal_time().time_of_day().total_
nanoseconds() ?

Regards,
Oliver

>hi andy,
>
>On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:26 +0000, Andy Tompkins wrote:
>> I am currently working on a guid class.  It is not quite done yet,
but
>> is quite
>> functional.  It does have a portable function to create guids.  I
have
>> put it
>> in the boost vault (guid.zip) in the hopes that it may one day be a
>> boost
>> library.
>
>well, the api looks really good (very similar to my libuuid wrapper)
...
>but i'm a bit lost building it ...
>i guess i have to run bjam, but how do i have to use it? up to now i
was
>just using emerging boost, but i have to experience in building it :-/
>
>thanks ... tim
>
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