On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 06:10:40PM +0100, David Sterba wrote: > 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". David, I'm not sure I understand what you mean: do you suggest to change the semantics of *_nf()/*_safe_time() to "wait arbitrarily long until the daemon could be connected ~> the UUID is safe" ? Petr -- Petr Uzel IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode
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