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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:46:52 +0200
From: "Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge" <aleks@physik.tu-berlin.de>
To: Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: missing read-only files uuid and =?UTF-8?Q?boot=5Fid?=
Message-ID: <0cee33598b90b23ccb89e5df7b70ac5b@physik.tu-berlin.de>
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Hi Cygwin team,

to be more compatible to Linux environment, cygwin should provide 2 more 
virtual files:

The read-only files uuid and boot_id contain random strings like 
6fd5a44b-35f4-4ad4-a9b9-6b9be13e1fe9.
The former is generated afresh for each read, the latter was generated 
once.

they could be easy provided and filled using /dev/urandom

Thanks, Alexander

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