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 with  OSF  DCE  1.1,  and  hash
25       based UUIDs V3 and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
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AUTHORS

28       Theodore Y. Ts'o
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SEE ALSO

31       uuid_clear(3),    uuid_compare(3),    uuid_copy(3),   uuid_generate(3),
32       uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)
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AVAILABILITY

35       libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1  and  is
36       available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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40util-linux                         May 2009                            UUID(3)
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