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NAME

        uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library

SYNOPSIS

        #include <uuid/uuid.h>

DESCRIPTION

        The  UUID  library  is  used to generate unique identifiers for objects
        that may be accessible beyond the local system.  This library generates
        UUIDs  compatible  with  those  created by the Open Software Foundation
        (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility uuidgen.
 
        The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably  expected  to  be
        unique  within  a system, and unique across all systems.  They could be
        used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple web
        servers  without communication between the servers, and without fear of
        a name clash.
        OSF DCE 1.1

AUTHOR

        Theodore Y. Ts’o

AVAILABILITY

        The UUID library is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from
        http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
        uuid_clear(3),    uuid_compare(3),    uuid_copy(3),   uuid_generate(3),
        uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)