[Bro-Dev] notice tags?

[Seth Hall]

On Jun 2, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Vern Paxson wrote:

>> Should there be a separate and built in way to generate unique ids?
> 
> Nice thought.


If we had a random() BiF I think we could do it pretty easily in scripting land because we could just fmt() the output from the random() function and trim it to a certain length.  That gets us the on-demand determinism for testing and it's reusable for other things (if we ever need a random number generator again).

  .Seth

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