NAME

       uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library

SYNOPSIS

       #include <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.

CONFORMING TO

       This library generates UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and V5 compatible  with
       RFC-4122.

AUTHOR

       Theodore Y. Ts'o

AVAILABILITY

       libuuid   is   part   of   the   util-linux   package   since   version  2.15.1  and  is  available  from
       https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO

       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)

util-linux                                          May 2009                                             UUID(3)