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31.\" Created Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
32.TH UUID 3 "May 2009" "util-linux" "Libuuid API"
33.SH NAME
34uuid \- DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
35.SH SYNOPSIS
36.B #include <uuid.h>
37.SH DESCRIPTION
38The UUID library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects
39that may be accessible beyond the local system. This library
40generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software
41Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility
42.BR uuidgen .
43.sp
44The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be
45unique within a system, and unique across all systems. They could
46be used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple
47web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear
48of a name clash.
49.SH "CONFORMING TO"
50OSF DCE 1.1
51.SH AUTHOR
52Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
53.SH AVAILABILITY
54.B libuuid
55is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from
56ftp://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)