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(1).

       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 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122>.

AUTHORS

       Theodore Y. Ts’o

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)

REPORTING BUGS

       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY

       The libuuid library is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1. It can be downloaded from
       Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.