Re: [RFC PATCH] libuuid: introduce safe variant of uuid_generate_time()

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On Friday 28 January 2011 16:26:59 Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Both of these make a lot of sense.
>
> > * loop until daemon socket is available, always returning a uuid
> > alothough it may take unspecified time
>
> Not too sure about this one.

quoting from Karel's mail:

> > int uuid_generate_time_nf(uuid_t out)     /* nf = "no fallback" */
> what about uuid_generate_safe_time(uuid_t out) ?

this would fulfill the "_safe_" meaning from such an API function and I think 
it makes sense to have something like "give me an UUID whatever it takes".

dave
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