1UUID(3)                       Programmer's Manual                      UUID(3)
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NAME

6       uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <uuid.h>
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DESCRIPTION

12       The UUID library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects
13       that may be accessible beyond the local system. This library generates
14       UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software Foundation
15       (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility uuidgen(1).
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17       The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be
18       unique within a system, and unique across all systems. They could be
19       used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple web
20       servers without communication between the servers, and without fear of
21       a name clash.
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CONFORMING TO

24       This library generates UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash
25       based UUIDs V3 and V5 compatible with RFC-4122
26       <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122>.
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AUTHORS

29       Theodore Y. Ts’o
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SEE ALSO

32       uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3),
33       uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)
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REPORTING BUGS

36       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
37       https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.
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AVAILABILITY

40       The libuuid library is part of the util-linux package since version
41       2.15.1. It can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
42       <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
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46util-linux 2.38.1                 2022-05-11                           UUID(3)
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