Re: UUIDGEN in lisp

[Jesper Harder]

Brad Collins <brad@studiojungle.net> writes:

> I think it would be generally helpful to have a generic unique id
> generator for a number available for any application but I'm not
> sure if this has already been done or not.
>
> Any ideas?

Concat some strings that should identify the user -- uid, pid,
system-name etc. -- plus some random stuff, and take a hash?

Something like:

(md5 (format "%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s" 
             (user-uid)
             (emacs-pid)
             (system-name)
             (user-full-name)
             user-mail-address
             (current-time)
             (random)
             (recent-keys)))