1UUID(3)                    Library Functions Manual                    UUID(3)
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NAME

6       uuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <uuid/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       OSF DCE 1.1
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AUTHOR

27       Theodore Y. Ts'o
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AVAILABILITY

30       The UUID library is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from
31       http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ ⟨http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/⟩
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SEE ALSO

34       uuid_clear(3),    uuid_compare(3),    uuid_copy(3),   uuid_generate(3),
35       uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)
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39E2fsprogs version 1.40.2           July 2007                           UUID(3)
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