[Mono-list] Windows

Jay Freeman (saurik) saurik@saurik.com
Sat, 28 Jul 2001 19:11:27 -0500


AFAIK, GUIDs no longer use MAC addresses due to privacy complaints.
Considering this is all GPL anyway, go look at libuuid (it comes with
e2fsprogs).

Sincerely,
Jay Freeman (saurik)
saurik@saurik.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel@ximian.com>
To: "Chris Hynes" <chrish@assistedsolutions.com>
Cc: <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Windows


>
> > If you want to learn C# and are interested in reimplementing one of
> > the classes that come with .NET, you can help.<<
> > I know C#, and have been hacking on the Guid structure, but I haven't
> > finished it  because I'm not sure exactly how to generate Guids (I think
> > there is a defined algorithm (including the current date/time and MAC
> > address)). Should I post what I've done so far?
>
> Sure!
>
> The MAC address is something that we will have to find out through a
> PInvoke call or a internalcall.
>
> Miguel.