GUID Generators for non-Windows systems?

[Kevin Jacobs]

Mike Fletcher <mfletch at tpresence.com> wrote:
> The E2FSProgs solution looks like the "right" way to go. Does every
> Linux/Unix system have it (or is it really easy for people to install)?  If
> so, doing an os.system under a sys.platform check sounds fine (I'm not going
> to try and wrap it as a python module on a platform to which I have no
> access :o) ).

Be careful -- uuidgen also exists under Digital/Compaq {Tru64} Unix and
requires their NT emulation services to be running.

-Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu [mailto:jay.krell at cornell.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: Mike Fletcher; Python List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: GUID Generators for non-Windows systems?


> I've long been hoping for someone to host a guid generator on a web page, or
> nowadays via xml-rpc/soap. Maybe at some point I'll get around to setting up
> a Windows server somewhere with a static ip addres...

>  - Jay
> ...


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