Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:45:24 +0900
> Cc: Emacs Dev <address@hidden>
> 
> Ken Raeburn writes:
>  > On Apr 25, 2011, at 00:37, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>  > > I have to agree with Yidong; there's no good reason not to inline
>  > > 
>  > >    (shell-command-to-string "uuidgen")
>  > > 
>  > > in any of the applications you've mentioned if you want an
>  > > uuidgen-format UUID.
>  > 
>  > How widespread is the uuidgen program these days?
> 
> Don't know.  The only system I'd worry about is Windows, though.

I wouldn't:

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373930(v=vs.85).aspx
   
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