libuuid  -  DCE  compatible  Universally Unique Identifier
       library


SYNOPSIS

       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       cc file.c -luuid


DESCRIPTION

       The libuuid library is used to generate unique identifiers
       for  objects  that may be accessible beyond the local sys­
       tem.  The Linux implementation  was  created  to  uniquely
       identify  ext2  filesystems  created  by  a machine.  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  gener­
       ate  unique HTTP cookies across multiple web servers with­
       out communication between the servers, and without fear of
       a name clash.


CONFORMING TO

       OSF DCE 1.1


AUTHOR

       libuuid  was  written  by  Theodore  Y.  Ts'o for the ext2
       filesystem utilties.


AVAILABILITY

       libuuid is part of the e2fsprogs package and is  available
       from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.


SEE ALSO

       uuid_clear(3),  uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_gener­
       ate(3),  uuid_is_null(3),   uuid_parse(3),   uuid_time(3),
       uuid_unparse(3)


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