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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