9 Jun
2006
9 Jun
'06
12:11 p.m.
Fredrik> the reason for making it a required argument is to make it Fredrik> clear that the code is using a "suboptimal" way to get at the Fredrik> MAC value. Fredrik> explicit is better than implicit etc etc. Can't we expect there will be a faster way to get at the MAC address at some point in the future, maybe via a _uuid extension module that does all the magic in C? Or is there something inherently slow in discovering a machine's MAC address (I realize such a task would probably be quite platform-depenedent). Skip