[Mono-dev] Type.GUID patch

[Robert Jordan]

Hi Kornél,

> This explains how GUIDs are generated but it doesn't mention the actual 
> hash
> algorytm used to generate GUID from the mentioned components:
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/adam_nathan/archive/2003/10/19/56779.aspx

... also part of Adam's impressive COM Interop book.

> 
> And GUID has a specification that should be followed when generating GUIDs.
> There are standard descriptions but this MS centric enough to can provide
> compatiblity with MS.NET:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/PPCGuidGen.asp

Wow! Thanks for the link ;-)

Rob