On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:51:49 +0200, Adam Merz <adammerz@hotmail.com> wrote:
Boris Schaeling <boris <at> highscore.de> writes: <snip>
If there are other ideas how to generate a unique name I can update the code (Windows provides an API to generate UUIDs but unfortunately it requires COM; on POSIX systems I'm not aware of any system function which could generate UUIDs).
Boris
For Windows, Neither UuidCreate nor UuidCreateSequential require COM. Are these not generally suitable for your needs?
Thanks, you are right! I thought there is only CoCreateGuid. But what to do on POSIX systems? Reinventing Boost.Uuid doesn't make sense? Here's another idea: The behavior::named_pipe constructor accepts an optional parameter to set a pipe name. I could add a macro like BOOST_PROCESS_NO_BOOST_UUID which would remove Boost.Uuid code and require the caller to set a name. Then everyone is free to generate unique names with whatever functions are available? Boris PS: Found your posting by coincidence (for whatever reason it doesn't show up in the main thread on news.gmane.org) and replied a bit late now.