Consider this function compiling with g++ -std=c++11 (GCC 4.7.2): boost::uuids::uuid getID() { static boost::uuids::random_generator generator; return generator(); } Is it safe to call getID f...

I want to check if a given string is a valid UUID using boost. This is what I have come up with by looking at the documentation on the boost website: void validate_uuid(const std::string& va...

I want to generate just random UUID's, as it is just important for instances in my program to have unique identifiers. I looked into Boost UUID, but I can't manage to generate the UUID because I do...

I have this code which is based on several posts in SO: boost::uuids::uuid uuid = boost::uuids::random_generator()(); auto uuidString= boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(uuid); but when I am...

I've just started using boost in c++ and I just wanted to ask a couple of questions relating to uuids. I am loading in a file which requires I know the uuids so I can link some objects together. ...

I'm using clang (CXX='clang++ -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++') on Mac OS X, with boost 1.53.0. I want to use uuid as keys in unordered_map, but getting the following errors: /usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/typ...

I'm using boost uuid to generate session ids. std::string SessionGenerator::generate() { boost::uuids::uuid id = m_rgen(); m_ss.clear(); m_ss.str(""); m_ss << id; return m_ss.str(); } ...

I have a class with members: std::string mName; boost::uuids::uuid mId; In the constructor I wrote: mName = boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(mId); Valgrind writes: ==30714== Use of uni...

When I generate the random number with single thread, no duplicate in 4M uuids generated but if I generate with two threads each 1M, I see roughly 16-20 duplicates. What could be the reason? class...