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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:57:34 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: "Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge" <aleks@physik.tu-berlin.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: missing read-only files uuid and boot_id
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Greetings, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge!

> 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.

What problem exactly you want to solve with this?
Also, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4313422/generate-guid-in-windows-with-batch-file

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

That's not the right way to generate UUID.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 18.08.2014, <13:55>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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