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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)