https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/libuuid-on-hp/m-p/4053438#M737299 Is there libuuid.so/sl for HP PA-RISC and Itanium? If so, where can I get it? Thank you. Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:28:31 GMT cactuar 2007-08-10T17:28:31Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/libuuid-on-hp/m-p/4053438#M737299 Is there libuuid.so/sl for HP PA-RISC and Itanium? If so, where can I get it? Thank you. Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:28:31 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/libuuid-on-hp/m-p/4053438#M737299 cactuar 2007-08-10T17:28:31Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/libuuid-on-hp/m-p/4053439#M737300 Do you mean like the Linux version?<BR />Note that the Linux libuuid was developed as a component of Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem tools, so nobody might have had a reason to port it.<BR /><BR />The source for Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem tools is available here:<BR /><A href="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/</A><BR /><BR />The specification of UUIDs is available in RFC4122:<BR /><A href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt" target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt</A><BR />It even includes a sample implementation in C, tested on Linux.<BR />For an easy overview, see this:<BR /><A href="http://www.famkruithof.net/guid-uuid-info.html" target="_blank">http://www.famkruithof.net/guid-uuid-info.html</A><BR /><BR />I think libuuid should be very easy to port, because it appears to require only two things: <BR />- a way to read the system clock with enough resolution (milliseconds is probably good, but if you can get better than that it helps: UUID creation can use timestamps with the resolution of 100 nanoseconds)<BR />- a way to get random numbers<BR /><BR />MK Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:48:56 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/libuuid-on-hp/m-p/4053439#M737300 Matti_Kurkela 2007-08-27T05:48:56Z