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Patch Uniqid revision 2010-04-22 06:32 UTC by mwoolf at mcomi dot net

Patch Uniqid for Performance problem Bug #37840

Patch version 2010-04-22 06:32 UTC

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Developer: mwoolf@mcomi.net

To patch this problem simply set $more_entropy to true

string uniqid ([ string $prefix = "" [, bool $more_entropy = false ]] )

so

unqid($your_prefix, true); // Quick

as opposed to 

uniqid($your_prefix); // Takes too long to generate

We had this problem on CentOS 5 using PHP 5.2
 
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