uuid-1.3.15: For creating, comparing, parsing and printing Universally Unique Identifiers
Copyright (c) 2008 Jason Dusek
(c) 2009 Mark Lentczner
(c) 2009-20102012 Antoine Latter
License BSD-style
Maintainer aslatter@gmail.com
Stability experimental
Portability portable
Safe Haskell None
Language Haskell2010

Data.UUID.V1

Description

RFC 4122 Version 1 UUID state machine.

The generated UUID is based on the hardware MAC address and the system clock.

If we cannot lookup the MAC address we seed the generator with a psuedo-random number.

Synopsis

Documentation

nextUUID :: IO ( Maybe UUID ) Source #

Returns a new UUID derived from the local hardware MAC address and the current system time. Is generated according to the Version 1 UUID specified in RFC 4122.

Returns Nothing if you request UUIDs too quickly.