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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] org-id: New org-id-method 'uuid' w/ elisp function that creates random uuid
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 07:03:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87EC457F-92D2-404E-AD87-B8AA1C73723F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874oijaeni.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de>

Hi David,

what is the difference/advantage of this idea over using uuidgen as  
Org does now?

Thanks.

- Carsten

On May 7, 2010, at 5:57 PM, David Maus wrote:

> Attached patch for org-id adds a new function `org-id-uuid' that
> returns a random (version 4) uuid following the format and suggestions
> in RFC 4122:
>
>  - it collects some random, system ans user specific data
>
>  - creates a md5 hash for this data to obtain the require 32 octets
>
>  - flips the correct bits to indicate a random uuid
>
> Using the elisp method to create a random uuid can be customized by
> setting `org-id-method' to 'uuid.
>
> In addition `org-id-new' throws an error when the call to
> `org-id-uuid-program' returns something that does not look like a
> uuid.[1]
>
> HTH
> -- David
>
>
> [1] Sorry, this should have been a patch on its own.
>
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- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-08  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-07 15:57 [patch] org-id: New org-id-method 'uuid' w/ elisp function that creates random uuid David Maus
2010-05-08  5:03 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-05-08 14:14   ` David Maus
2010-05-15  7:02     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-16  9:14       ` David Maus
2010-05-16  9:39         ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-16 14:16           ` David Maus

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