rpcrt4(2/2): Use pseudo-random numbers to generate UUIDs rather than using the (old, deprecated) MAC-address-and-time generation algorithm

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Tue Oct 14 04:52:55 CDT 2008


"Juan Lang" <juan.lang at gmail.com> writes:

> This unfortunately causes test failures in quartz.  I strongly suspect
> the failures are spurious, because I'm pretty confident my tests show
> that this change is correct, but I don't know enough about quartz to
> know the cause.
> --Juan
>
> From cf9fc613c3cff0cd258e42123cb7eb5dc66c1610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Juan Lang <juan.lang at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:08:17 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Use pseudo-random numbers to generate UUIDs rather than using the (old,
>  deprecated) MAC-address-and-time generation algorithm

The change is OK but you'll want to flesh out RtlGenRandom first,
currently it will fail pretty badly if /dev/urandom isn't available.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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