Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 May 2016 18:56:59 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] sysctl: introduce uuid_le and uuid_be |
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I'm also curious what !@#!? idiot came up with the concept of Little Endian UUID's. UUID's, and how to transform them from a printed representation to a binary presentation, were well defined in a very specific way in RFC-4122, which came from HP's Apollo/Domain OS, and was adopted by the OSF/DCE, as well as later by Microsoft. In all cases, there was never any such thing as little endian versus big endian UUID's. Might as well talk about big-endian and little endian IP addresses. This way lies madness.
It's also the case that if all you need is a random UUID's, that *technically* the endianness matters, but in actual practice, it really won't matter.
- Ted
P.S. Let me guess, it was some clueless Intel engineer when they were drafting the EFI spec? Sigh....
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