About GUIDGEN.exe in Visual C++6.0

今天阅读了《com技术内幕》中关于GUID一节，其中写道“GUIDGEN.exe其实调用了Microsoft 的COM库中的CoCreateGuid函数,CoCreateGuid将调用RPC函数UnidCreate”

in MSDN:

The UuidCreate function creates a new UUID.

#include <rpc.h>
RPC_STATUS RPC_ENTRY UuidCreate( 
  UUID *  Uuid  
);
 

Parameters

Uuid

Returns a pointer to the created UUID.

Return Values

Value	Meaning
RPC_S_OK	Success
RPC_S_UUID_LOCAL_ONLY	The UUID is guaranteed to be unique to this machine only.
RPC_S_UUID_NO_ADDRESS	Cannot get Ethernet or token-ring hardware address for this computer

Remarks

In Windows NT, versions 4.0 and later, Windows 95, DCOM release, and Windows 98, UuidCreate returns RPC_S_UUID_LOCAL_ONLY when the originating machine does not have an ethernet/token ring (IEEE 802.x) address. In this case, the generated UUID is a valid identifier, and is guaranteed to be unique among all UUIDs generated on the machine. However, the possibility exists that another machine without an ethernet/token ring address generated the identical UUID. Therefore you should never use this UUID to identify an object that is not strictly local to your machine. Machines with ethernet/token ring addresses generate UUIDs that are guaranteed to be globally unique.