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Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Ideas for Message-ID's
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 08:25:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.082553.14229@looking.on.ca>
References: <3427@litchi.bbn.com> <1991Mar22.050749.22115@looking.on.ca> <b2x77c.9uo@wang.com> <1991Mar29.032900.548@ni.umd.edu>

Down the road, operating system designers probably should consider
getunique() as an operating system service.   A very simple function,
it would simply guarantee that it never, ever, returns the same string.
Would be handy.   It might have a few modes, providng strings that are
unique for the process, day, system-forever and universe-forever.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473