Re: NSProcessInfo globallyUniqueString

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 01:41 PM, David Ayers wrote:

> Hallo all,
>
> on my maching the globallyUniqueString produced by NSProcessInfo wasn't
> always globally unique since the precision of the date output only 
> evaluated
> to seconds.

Thanks ... your fix didn't absolutely guarantee uniqueness, so I added a 
lock
protected counter too.

> Also some of apps I know use this string to create filenames and
> the usage of ':' causes problems. Therefor I propose the following 
> patch.
> Yet if some apps already rely on the date format, I've included another
> alternative. But I believe, relying on the format of this string is a 
> bug.

I think relying on it to form a legal filename might be considered a bug 
as well,
but the current implementation should be ok on unix style machines at 
least.