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/util-linux/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/>.