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| 32 | .TH UUID 3 "May 2009" "util-linux" "Libuuid API" |
| 33 | .SH NAME |
| 34 | uuid \- DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library |
| 35 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 36 | .B #include <uuid.h> |
| 37 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 38 | The UUID library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects |
| 39 | that may be accessible beyond the local system. This library |
| 40 | generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software |
| 41 | Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility |
| 42 | .BR uuidgen . |
| 43 | .sp |
| 44 | The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be |
| 45 | unique within a system, and unique across all systems. They could |
| 46 | be used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple |
| 47 | web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear |
| 48 | of a name clash. |
| 49 | .SH "CONFORMING TO" |
| 50 | OSF DCE 1.1 |
| 51 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 52 | Theodore Y.\& Ts'o |
| 53 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
| 54 | .B libuuid |
| 55 | is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from |
| 56 | ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |
| 57 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 58 | .BR uuid_clear (3), |
| 59 | .BR uuid_compare (3), |
| 60 | .BR uuid_copy (3), |
| 61 | .BR uuid_generate (3), |
| 62 | .BR uuid_is_null (3), |
| 63 | .BR uuid_parse (3), |
| 64 | .BR uuid_time (3), |
| 65 | .BR uuid_unparse (3) |