From: "Darryl L. Pierce" <dpierce@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Extracting system UUID...
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:49:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100420194928.GC5138@mcpierce-desktop.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100420185205.GA5138@mcpierce-desktop.usersys.redhat.com>
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:39:13PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Ah, as Lennart just pointed out, you really don't want to use that, it
> can't be trusted on a lot of platforms. Unless you don't mind having
> the same value for lots of different machines :)
>
> What do you want to use this value for?
It's going to be used to persistently and uniquely identify systems in a
network. The hostname can't be used since it's possible for a system to
come up with a different hostname within DHCP.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-20 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 18:52 Extracting system UUID Darryl L. Pierce
2010-04-20 19:10 ` Lennart Poettering
2010-04-20 19:11 ` Greg KH
2010-04-20 19:30 ` Darryl L. Pierce
2010-04-20 19:39 ` Greg KH
2010-04-20 19:49 ` Darryl L. Pierce [this message]
2010-04-20 20:11 ` Greg KH
2010-04-20 20:16 ` Lennart Poettering
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