From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: UUIDGEN in lisp
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 05:05:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n07m4879.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2374.1076727586.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Brad Collins <brad@studiojungle.net> writes:
> I think it would be generally helpful to have a generic unique id
> generator for a number available for any application but I'm not
> sure if this has already been done or not.
>
> Any ideas?
Concat some strings that should identify the user -- uid, pid,
system-name etc. -- plus some random stuff, and take a hash?
Something like:
(md5 (format "%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s"
(user-uid)
(emacs-pid)
(system-name)
(user-full-name)
user-mail-address
(current-time)
(random)
(recent-keys)))
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-14 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-02-14 4:05 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-02-14 18:23 ` UUIDGEN in lisp Brad Collins
[not found] ` <mailman.2398.1076783242.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-15 0:27 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-15 4:16 ` Brad Collins
2004-02-15 16:05 ` Brad Collins
[not found] ` <mailman.2412.1076818749.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-15 20:47 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-16 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-16 13:47 ` Brad Collins
[not found] ` <mailman.2461.1076925909.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-16 16:30 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-16 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2509.1076960950.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-16 21:05 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-17 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2546.1077000306.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-17 18:45 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-17 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2586.1077048551.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-17 21:21 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-18 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-19 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2471.1076940207.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-16 17:10 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-14 18:54 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-15 2:37 ` Felix
2004-02-14 2:57 Brad Collins
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