[Bug 28990] LibUUID dependency problematic for OSX and Windows

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28990

--- Comment #13 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-10-04 08:27:07 PDT ---
stormer pointed out on IRC that if we call g_rand_new() once per UUID, that
reads an implementation-dependent amount of entropy (currently 128 bits) from
/dev/urandom for use as a seed. Conveniently, that's enough for a UUID.

I think that's a good approach in the short term, and we can push for a UUID
implementation in GLib as a longer term solution.

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