Is there a method to generate a standard 128bit GUID (UUID) on the Mac?

Question

Is there a built in function equivalent to .NET\'s

Guid.NewGuid();

in Cocoa?

My desire is to produce a string along the lines of

Answer 1

UUIDs are handled in Core Foundation, by the CFUUID library. The function you are looking for is CFUUIDCreate.

FYI for further searches: these are most commonly known as UUIDs, the term GUID isn't used very often outside of the Microsoft world. You might have more luck with that search term.