1UUID(3)                           Libuuid API                          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.
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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 OSF DCE  1.1,  and  hash  based
25       UUIDs V3 and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
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AUTHOR

28       Theodore Y. Ts'o
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AVAILABILITY

31       libuuid  is  part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is
32       available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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SEE ALSO

35       uuid_clear(3),   uuid_compare(3),    uuid_copy(3),    uuid_generate(3),
36       uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)
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40util-linux                         May 2009                            UUID(3)
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