On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 21:31 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:21:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > which also gets bonus points for being totally unreadable, and thus 100%
> > in the spirit of uuid's.
>
> Heh. UUID's don't have to be readable; just universally unique. Code
> on the other hand should be readable. :-)
>
> If you want something more readable, you could print the MAC address
> and boot time. Of course some crazy people seem to think leaking the
> MAC address will somehow be a privacy violation. And printing a
> random UUID is a lot simpler....
Printing a random UUID is necessary, for now anyway, because you cannot
assume every machine is going to have a MAC address, even if it is
deemed appropriate to print this on oops.
The Network is the Computer!
Jon.
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