Re: luuid vs. forks

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

>> This looks wrong to me. Also it (indirectly) breaks my tests. So I want to
>> ask — is this normal, or my setup is broken?

> Your setup is broken, or more likely, the underlying random number
> generator.  fork() makes creating a good one really tricky on UNIX.
> RAND_bytes() from OpenSSL allegedly gets this right, or you can open
> /dev/urandom directly---but you have to make sure you've disabled
> buffered I/O in that case.

Thanks.

I'd like to avoid writing my own libuuid for OS X though...

I figured out that in my setup I'm using Apple's builtin libuuid (that
is why generated UUID are in all-caps for instance).

Have anyone else used luuid Lua module on OS X? How did you built it?

Alexander.